Ed left without saying goodbye. That was trademark of his. The gender reassignment surgery of Christine Jorgensen was a pivotal moment for transgender people but a taboo and controversial topic in the conservative s.
Jorgensen, given the male name George William Jorgensen, Jr. However, as detailed in Ed Wood, Mad Genius , Glen or Glenda became a deeply personal story of Ed Wood's own struggles as a cross-dressing heterosexual man. In his first feature film, writer-director Wood, credited as Daniel Davis, stars alongside then girlfriend Dolores Fuller as Glen, a seemingly typical s man whose love of wearing women's clothing leaves him tortured and desperately seeking acceptance from both society and his wife.
Surprisingly poignant at times, the film lends true insight into Wood's innermost thoughts and feelings. Sadly, Glen's story and, by extension, Wood's is couched in an incoherent narrative padded by pointless forays into the metaphysical in the form of Bela Lugosi 's appearance as a string-pulling supreme being.
Given a limited release to the few pre-sold territories willing to take a chance on the film based on its title alone, Glen or Glenda failed to find an audience. Undaunted after the failure of Glen or Glenda , the ever-optimistic, would-be auteur returned to the Western genre in This time, Ed Wood hoped to establish a foothold in television drama. As detailed in the documentary, Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora , Wood turned to his childhood heroes to help him with an exciting new project, a pilot for a TV show called Crossroads Avenger.
Wood himself would fill out the cast, riding by on horseback to fill out sparse scenes. Despite his cast of experienced, albeit aging, actors , Wood's notoriously absurd dialogue "Don't underestimate this Smith character. He carries his guns like he knows how to use them" and threadbare production values doomed the film. Ultimately, Wood never found a buyer or a theatrical distributor willing to take a chance on the poverty row production.
He later maintained that the pilot was rejected by a network in favor of The Adventures Wild Bill Hickok. However, that show went on the air in , two years before Crossroads Avenger was shot. Although Ed Wood is best known for his sci-fi and horror pictures, those films represent a relatively small portion of his overall output.
As detailed in Rob Craig's Ed Wood, Mad Genius , Wood also made Westerns, such as the aforementioned Crossroads of Laredo and Crossroads Avenger , crime films, dramas, and television commercials — none of which were successful. Jail Bait , released in , is among Wood's better films in terms of story and overall coherence of plot. Shot with no scenes occurring in daylight hours, Jail Bait is film noir Wood style. Co-written by British screenwriter and producer Alex Gordon, an apparent voice of reason in Wood's chaos, the film is, at best, a competent entry in Wood's oeuvre.
The Violent Years , scripted by Wood but directed by William Morgan, is a low-budget exploitation film in the mold of Blackboard Jungle and other teen delinquent flicks of the 50s.
Focusing on a gang of high school girls gone bad, the film tackles everything from parental neglect to teen pregnancy. Ending in a bloody shootout, the gang's sole survivor avoids the death penalty only to die in childbirth. The Sinister Urge was Wood's last attempt at making a mainstream film. A gritty tale of murder and mayhem in the "smut picture racket," The Sinister Urge is " Wood's most accomplished film ," according to author Rob Craig.
Released in the wake of Hitchcock's Psycho , The Sinister Urge is a disarmingly socially aware exploitation picture despite its simplistic take on serious subject matter.
In poor health and addicted to morphine, Lugosi was a cash-strapped shadow of the man who played Dracula in In Wood's own words, the Dracula actor turned him down flat. Dire financial circumstances led Lugosi to relent. Big Finish 4. Singles' Bar 6. Play-A-Lick 7. Dangerous Streets 8. Lion Around 9. Maggie Leaves Sid's Demise Tender Time Voice Over At last, for all you Jerry Goldsmith fans out there, her is the expanded score for "Innerspace.
Tuck Pendleton played by Dennis Quaid and an experimental craft. Jack, with the aid of Tuck's reporter girlfriend Lydia played by Meg Ryan , must find a chip, stolen by thieves who actually had a hand in the events leading to the injection, that will enable the government to restore Tuck to full size. The pressure mounts because Tuck doesn't have long before his oxygen runs out, and the thieves, led by Victor Scrimshaw Kevin McCarthy and Dr.
Margaret Canker Fiona Lewis , want to get Jack in order to get the other chip. It's a very good movie with a very good score. Also included are songs from the OOP Geffen soundtrack. Warner Bros. Again 3. Lydia Leaves Tuck 4. The Nightmare 5. Let's Get Small 6. In the Syringe 7. Labo Attack 8.
Ozzie on the Run 9. The Injection Aftershock The Nightmare Comes True Heading to the Optical Nerve Enviromental Adjust Jack Hears Voices First Dialogue Space is a Flop Bourbon Dance The Cowboy The Abduction of Jack The Refrigerator Truck Escape From the Truck Hotel Room Lydia's Baby Escape From the Lab Gut Reaction Air Supply Back to the Lab Wedding and Cowboy's Return Twistin' the Night Away peformed by Rod Stewart Hypnotize Me performed by Wang Chung Is It Really Love?
The film, written by, directed by, and starring Emilio Estevez, has to with a college grad named John Wisdom Estevez , who can't find work because of a felony on his record for car theft. Desperately wanting to make good and failing because of that little blotch, he decides to become what everyone thinks him to be: a criminal. Not having the heart to do any harm to people, he decides to become a criminal for the people, ala Robin Hood.
With his girlfriend Karen in tow, he goes from bank to bank, destroying loan records in order to give the poor a little more time to pay their debts. Due to my love of B-movies, I can't find this horrible as all the critics did. I think it was a pretty good film let down by an extremely self-defating ending.
One thing is for sure: you have to be pretty good to score Danny Elfman for music on your first directorial effort. His belnd of synth and piano music is nicely done, even touching in spots.
Standouts are tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, and Why did they put the main title track at the end of the CD? Change of Life 2. The Mirror 3. The Passion of Wisdom 4. Job Search 5. The Big Heist 6. Karen Decides 7. Close call in Albuquerque 8. The Face Off 9. Trouble The Shootout Wisdom Phone Home Heist part two Karen Bites the Bullet In the Desert Finale His over-the-top portrayal of Bison was a great way for him to go out.
However, the score is pretty well done for an action piece Graeme Revell, who composed this, is a veteran action film scorer. The standout tracks are 1, 4, 6, 11, 12, and Good score, so get it while you can.
Showdown in Shadaloo 2. Chun-Li Enters the Morgue 4. Colonel Guile Addresses the Troops 5. The Circus Tent 6. General M. Bison 7. Honda is Tortured 8. Bison Troopers Marching Song Zangief 9. Chun Li's Story Dhalsim Reprograms Blanka The Stealth Boat Attack Guile Discovers Blanka Guile Faces Bison Bison Dies The Aftermath No, I'm not being shut down already, it's a line from one of my guilty pleasures, the comedy "Suburban Commando. Taking a room for rent with the Wilcox family, headed by father Charlie Christopher Lloyd and mother Jenny Shelley Duvall , he soon grows on them and they grow on him.
However, an evil alien general William Ball who Shep thought dead tracks him to Earth for revenge, and Shep has to fight to protect Earth and the family with the help of his meek landlord. The long OOP and pretty scarce Rhino Records release contains no piece of score from the film, but has the songs used as well as a couple of sound clips. One of the highlights is the long guitar solo that closes out "Ramsey.
In , I am reviewing each of the stories in When the Topic is Sex , a collection of Ed Wood's nonfiction magazine articles from the s. This series is still ongoing. Check back for updates. G reg Dziawer has been contributing articles to this series on a regular basis since October He originally focused on Ed Wood's prolific writing career in the s and s, often debunking books and articles commonly attributed to Eddie.
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