GIRL STROKE BOY
(Bob Kellett, 1971)
Release date: 17 January 2022
Limited Edition Blu-ray (World Blu-ray premiere)
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Based on David Percival’s acclaimed play Girlfriend, Girl Stroke Boy is a one-of-a-kind comedy which tells of two everyday, middle-class parents who are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian (actor and pop star Peter Straker in a pioneering performance).
Directed with an affectionate, light touch by Bob Kellett (Up Pompeii, Space: 1999) and featuring a superb cast, including Joan Greenwood (Mysterious Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets), Michael Hordern (The Missionary, Barry Lyndon), Patricia Routledge (To Sir, with Love), and Clive Francis (A Clockwork Orange), Girl Stroke Boy still packs a punch today thanks to Straker’s flamboyant performance (British cinema’s first gay leading role to be played by a black actor) and the prescient subject matter. Long out of circulation, this new, restored edition marks the film’s worldwide Blu-ray premiere.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• New restoration from a 4K scan of rare surviving film elements by Powerhouse Films
• Original mono audio
• New interview with the film’s star, Peter Straker (2022)
• The BEHP Interview with John Scott (2018): far-reaching discussion of the composer’s work, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project
• New appreciation by film historian and curator Alex Davidson (2022)
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
• A Couple of Beauties (1972): innuendo-laden comedy short starring Manchester-based female impersonator Bunny Lewis
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with new essay by Jane Giles, archival interview with Peter Straker, a look at the reception of the source play Girlfriend, an overview of contemporary critical responses, new writing on A Couple of Beauties, and film credits
• World premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited edition of 2,000 copies
• Extras subject to change
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BBFC cert: 12
REGION FREE
EAN: 5060697921175
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This will be released in North America as well, with their own separate print run of 2,000.
This will be released in North America as well, with their own separate print run of 2,000.
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CineOutsider - which, like the Blueprint review above, offers a lengthy and very fair critique of a film that really wasn't given its due when it originally came out, mainly because it's only with hindsight that we can see how incredibly unusual it was for a British film from 1971, only four years after homosexuality was decriminalised, presenting an LGBT relationship as though it wasn't merely completely normal but the more appealing option out of the ones on show.