1952 Science Fiction flop in which Lauren Bacall portrays shape-shifter Janie Flint, who leaves her house in a new body every day. (Bacall always shifts into women, usually more decadent and flattering than the last.) Bacall is hunted by future Oscar winner Tom Tully, who portrays a tough employed by a cabal of misunderstood government scientists whose experiments presumably caused Bacall's never-fully-explained powers. The bewildering flick spends 72 minutes desperately trying to graft a condemnation of McCarthyism to its imbecilic plot -- rumors persist that the studio savagely edited the film into this declawed B-movie with A-list talent but an original screenplay does not exist. A bomb at the height of Bacall's fame, The Changing Room hasn't been shown in theaters for more than 55 years.
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