Kes (1970)
April 3, 1970
Drama
1h 51m
They beat him. They deprived him. They ridiculed him. They broke his heart. But they couldn’t break his spirit.
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Ken Loach
Billy David Bradley
Jud Freddie Fletcher
Mrs. Casper Lynne Perrie
Mr. Farthing Colin Welland
Mr. Sugden Brian Glover
Youth Employment Officer Bernard Atha
Fish and Chip Shop Man Bill Dean
Milkman Duggie Brown
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Keywords
- small town
- great britain
- northern england
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- single parent
- england
- falcon
- dysfunctional family
- coming of age
- yorkshire
- sibling rivalry
- working class
- single mother
- teenage boy
- mining town
- childhood
- united kingdom
- neglected child
- kitchen sink realism
- newspaper boy
- bleak
- brother brother relationship
- bird
- kestrel
- falconry