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The BAFTA-winning adaptation of Quentin Crisp’s best-selling autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant features an arguably career-best performance by John Hurt as Crisp a flamboyant homosexual trying to live an openly gay lifestyle in the intolerant pre-war years.Funny, tragic and, at times, heart-warming, this unflinching story of an unconventional man is strongly directed by the multi-award-winning Jack Gold. It is featured here in a brand-new restoration from original film elements, in its original full-screen aspect ratio.SPECIAL FEATURES[] Commentary with John Hurt, director Jack Gold and executive producer Verity Lambert[] Seven Men: Quentin Crisp a Granada profile from 1971[] Mavis Catches Up with Quentin Crisp an interview from 1989[] Image gallery[] Philip Mackie’s original script [PDF]