A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches polychrome digital optical wide screen HDTV video file Blu-ray video region A
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Canadian Home Video Rating: PG
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Title from container Based on the book "A kestrel for a knave" by Barry Hines Originally released as a motion picture in 1970 Special features: disc 1: newly restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Ken Loach and director of photography Chris Menges, with the filmmaker's original production soundtrack ; alternate, internationally released soundtrack, with postsync dialogue ; original theatrical trailer Special features: disc 2: Making "Kes," a new documentary featuring Loach, Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley ; The Southbank show: "Ken Loach," a 1993 profile ; Cathy come home (1966), an early television feature by Loach, with an afterword by film writer Graham Fuller Music, John Cameron ; photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Roy Watts David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.66:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural For private home use only Audio track in English, captions in English Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
