Kes

1970

Ken Loach
Director
MGM
Distributor
Woodfall Film Productions
Production Company

Focus of a young boy's life becomes a kestrel that he trains.

Documentary like look at working class life, beautifully and naturistically filmed with dead-on recreation of school life. Once seen, never forgotten. Hankies required for the ending though.

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27th March 1970
Cinema






19th April 2011
Blu-Ray



110 mins
1.77:1




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David Bradley
Billy
Freddie Fletcher
Jud
Lynne Perrie
Mrs. Casper
Colin Welland
Mr. Farthing
Brian Glover
Mr. Sugdon
Bob Bowes
Mr. Gryce
Bernard Atha
Youth Employment Officer
Laurence Bould
Joey Kaye
Comedian at Pub
Ted Carroll
Bookmaker
Robert Naylor
MacDowell
Agnes Drumgoon
George Speed
Speed
Desmond Guthrie
Guthrie
Zoe Sutherland
Librarian
The 4d Jones
Eric Bolderson
Farmer
Joe Miller
Reg, Mother's Friend
Beryl Carroll
Julie Shakespeare
Julie
Bill Dean
Fish and Chip Shop Man (as Billy Dean)
Geoffrey Banks
Math Teacher
John Grayson
Duggie Brown
Milkman
Trevor Hesketh
Mr Hesketh
Stephen Crossland
Billy's Friend
Harry Markham
Newsagent
David Glover
Tibbutt
Frank Norton
Billy's Friend
Martin Harley
Billy's Friend
Leslie Stringer
Kes
Kes