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 kellet 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.