The Christine Jorgensen Story
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
The Christine Jorgensen (1970, USA) is a Shocksploitation film directed by Irving Rapper.
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Main Details
- Released in 1970
- Color
- Running Time: 98 Min.
- Production Co: Edward Small Productions (as Edprod)
- Distribution Co: United Artists (1970) (USA) (theatrical)
- Directed by Irving Rapper
- Written by Christine Jorgensen, Robert E. Kent, Ellis St. Joseph
- Starring John Hansen, Joan Tompkins, Bill Erwin
- Produced by Edward Small
- Original Music by Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter
- Cinematography by Jacques R. Marquette
- Film Editing by Grant Whytock
Plot Summary
- A sex-change operation that changed "George" into "Christine" in 1950s Denmark.
Taglines
- I Had to Make It As a Woman. There Was No Return.
- The first man to become a woman
- I couldn't live in a man's body!
- Did the surgeon's knife make me a woman or a freak?
