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2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #561
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969
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. Special features included
From the book A kestrel for a knave by Barry Hines
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
David Bradley, Colin Welland, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes
MPAA rating: PG-13; for language, nudity and some teen smoking
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs, Dolby digital, mono
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing