What distinguishes it from other low-budget efforts are the occasional mad flights of fancy.

This well-meaning disaster, rescued from the obscurity it surely craves, is without doubt a candidate for one of the worst films ever made.

It isn't quite a camp classic, although it's dreadful enough to have a certain comic appeal. ''Glen or Glenda'' is also a film of great conviction in its way, and that tends to interfere with the fun.

Underneath the ineptitude, this is an impassioned plea for tolerance. Many of Wood’s points, ridiculously presented though they are, make sense.