Kes DVD [1969]

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In 2015, he popped back up on our TV screens in Holby City, playing an elderly man who thought he was a bad luck charm.

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There's comedy and tragedy in equal measure in Kes, with the hilarious football scene with Brian Glover as both referee and Bobby Charlton and the heartbreaking ending demonstrating Loach's devastating gift for both. A lad from the West Riding of Yorkshire, he once said the only acting he'd ever done was in the headmaster's office. When in the closing scened he loses the bird through the uncaring machinations of his brother, the effect is nothing short of heart wrenching. Billy is due to leave school soon, as an "Easter Leaver", without taking any public examinations (and therefore no qualifications); Jud states early in the film that he expects Billy will shortly be joining him at work in the mine, whereas Billy says that he does not know what job he will do, but also says nothing would make him work in the mine.Nevertheless under the collective umbrella of a company named Woodfall they produced some pretty exciting stuff. It is often compared with François Truffaut's Les 400 coups (1959), another memorable depiction of adolescent rebellion in an unsympathetic adult world. It [the film] has gradually achieved classic status and remains the most clear-sighted film ever made about the compromised expectations of the British working class.

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Everything changes when he finds Kes, an injured Kestrel, whom he nurses and cherishes back to health.There's a colossal waste of people and talent, often through schools where full potential is not brought out. In 1987, the VHS release was given a PG certificate on the grounds of "the frequent use of mild language", and the film has remained PG since that time.

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Lynne denied the plastic surgery was the reason for her exit, saying her character 'had run its course'.But his film career wasn't over: he appeared in All Quiet on the Western Front and 1978's Absolution. Murphy also argued that the word "bugger" is a term of affection and not considered offensive in the area that the film was set. But the film's message is relevant wherever the young are maltreated and manipulated, and wherever the labor force is exploited. Towards the end of the Woodfall era a new figure, Ken Loach emerged on the scene with early works such as "Kes", that were to carry forward the spirit of the British New Wave from the late '60's to the present day, a body of work without parallel in its consistency in our native cinema.

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Jud leaves money and instructions for Billy to place a bet on two horses but after consulting a punter, who tells him the horses are unlikely to win, Billy spends the money on fish and chips and intends to purchase meat for his bird (instead the butcher gives him scrap meat free of charge). Some scenes, including the opening scene and the scene when Jud bullies Billy for having a book, were re-dubbed for the American market to be in a more understandable form of English for Americans. His younger brother Richard had found a new life after his student experiences at the local secondary modern school by training the original bird "Kes", the inspiration for the movie. A harrowing coming of age story, the 1969 film followed the struggles of Billy, a South Yorkshire lad who escaped the pressures of his home life by training a fledgeling kestrel.Loach was later to develop his vision of the human condition more single-mindedly and to greater effect in works such as "The Gamekeeper", "Ladybird, Ladybird" and what I believe to be his greatest work, "My Name is Joe", which is not to diminish a film with many wonderful moments provided mainly by David Bradley in his unforgettable performance as Billy Casper. The failures, housed in secondary modern schools, could only look forward to unskilled manual labour or the dangers of the coal face. The Sheffield native went on to join the comedy classic Porridge playing the slightly slow Cyril Heslop. For some of the cast, the film was a springboard into successful TV and film careers, soap stardom and more. Actor Andrew Garfield, who played Billy in a stage adaptation of Kes early in his career, commented that, "Billy needs to be loved by both his mother and brother.