Kes follows the story of Billy, who comes from a dysfunctional working-class family and is a no-hoper at school, but discovers his own private means of ...
Kes
1969 ‧ Documentary/Drama ‧ 1h 50m
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7.9/10 · IMDb
91% · Rotten Tomatoes
Ken Loach's acclaimed British drama focuses on Billy Casper (David Bradley), a tormented working-class boy who is subjected to abuse both at school and at home. The son of a single mother (Lynne Perrie), Billy's existence is mostly bleak until he...
Release date: March 27, 1970 (UK)
Director: Ken Loach
Story by: Barry Hines
Screenplay: Ken Loach, Barry Hines, and Tony Garnett
Distributed by: United Artists
Adapted from: A Kestrel for a Knave
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Ken Loach's (1969) film of Barry Hines' novel 'A Kestrel for a Knave' is written with Tony Garnett (Producer of 'Cathy Come Home' for BBC TV). Set in a mining ...
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Ken Loach's acclaimed British drama focuses on Billy Casper (David Bradley), a tormented working-class boy who is subjected to abuse both at school and at ...
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Named one of the ten best British films of the century by the British Film Institute, Ken Loach's Kes, is cinema's quintessential portrait of working-class ...
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Named by the British Film Institute as one of the ten best British films of the century, Kes, from Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda, The Wind That Shakes the Barley), ...
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Posted: Jan 26, 2011
Posted: Jan 26, 2011
The tough, touching story of a northern schoolboy and the kestrel that brings hope to his hardscrabble life remains the most widely admired of Ken Loach's films ...