Movielogr
Kes (1970)
Directed by Ken Loach
Overview
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—until tragedy strikes.
Rated PG-13 | Length 111 minutes
Actors
David Bradley | Freddie Fletcher | Lynne Perrie | Colin Welland | Brian Glover | Bob Bowes | Bernard Atha | Laurence Bould | Joey Kaye | Ted Carroll | Robert Naylor | Agnes Drumgoon | George Speed | Desmond Guthrie | Zoe Sunderland | Eric Bolderson | Joe Miller | Beryl Carroll | Julie Shakespeare | Bill Dean | Geoffrey Banks | John Grayson | Duggie Brown | Trevor Hesketh | Stephen Crossland | Harry Markham | David Glover | Frank Norton | Martin Harley | Leslie Stringer