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Ed Wood was the screenwriter on this "torn from the headlines" gem about bad girls and fast cars. An all-female gang rides a crime wave of theft, vandalism, rape (!) and wantonness that leads to murder, prison and an illegitimate child. Jean Moorehead, Barbara Weeks, Timothy Farrell star. AKA: "Female." 80 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono. Plays All Regions.
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If Ed Wood is a loving homage to movies, it is all the more fitting that Orson Welles, the patron saint of cinema, is celebrated throughout. From the obvious touches, like the poster of Citizen Kane (1941) that hangs in Wood's office, to the use of deep focus photography (where the fore, middle and background are all in focus) and low angle perspective shots favoured by Welles, his presence is felt everywhere. This culminates in a meeting between the auteur and Wood at Musso and Frank Grill, a famous West Coast eatery. With his stocky build and deep voice, Vincent D'Onofrio bears an uncanny resemblance to Welles. As he and Wood share a drink and commiserate about their struggles to get films made, there is a particularly important exchange:
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The DVD edition of Ed Wood initially had difficulty reaching store shelves in North America due to unspecified legal issues. In February 2004, a DVD was shipped to stores, only to be recalled again without explanation—though some copies quickly found their way to collectors' venues such as eBay. The DVD was finally released on October 19, 2004, minus the transvestitism-themed featurette "When Carol Met Larry", which is highly speculated was the reason for the legal woes. (Others claimed that Burton thought the featurette mocked transvestites, counter to the themes of the film.) However, on the Dutch edition of the DVD (and probably the entire German 2-region) this featurette is present.
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Anybody that doesn't love "Ed Wood" has some kinda chemical imbalance. Didn't like it? Go to the Doctor, get some medication. Still don't like it? Go get some electro shock treatment. Still no good?
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Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1924, Ed Wood grew up with a love for films and spent many Saturday afternoons at matinees watching cowboy heroes such as George O'Brien and Tom Tyler. After graduating from high school in 1942, Wood joined the Marines and experienced grueling and devastating combat duty. At the end of World War II, Wood moved to California in 1947 to obtain work in the motion picture industry. The following year, he started a small company with John Crawford Thomas, shooting early television commercials. Wood directed more than 150 commercials throughout the 1950s, and he ... shot a few TV shows.
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Ed Wood never did rise above his mediocrity, choosing instead to end his career making nearly unwatchable pornographic films and slipping into alcohol-induced depressions. He died, penniless and forgotten, in his dilapidated North Hollywood home in 1978. That same year, he was posthumously awarded the Golden Turkey award for 'Worst Director of All Time' and Plan 9 received the 'Worst Movie Ever Made' honors. A new generation of what can best be described as 'anti-fans' arose from this sudden interest in the failures of a troubled man, and Ed Wood achieved a level of notoriety and respect in death that he never achieved in life. Seemingly overnight, alternative movie houses across the country could not get enough prints of his movies, and legions of fans eagerly bought up magazines that chronicled Ed Wood's movie career.
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