Kes
Before Kes started hanging around on Craig David’s arm in Bo Selecta, he was actually a film star in his own right, in the self titled film of 1969 called “Kes”.
This film was great Northern hardship stuff, based on the book “A Kestrel for a Knave” and tracks the life of a little boy who befriends a kestrel, which he calls, imaginatively, Kes.
Kes does not have the best of lives, and ends up rather unceremoniously in the dustbin. Sorry if I’ve ruined the plotline for you, but honestly, what are you reading this for if you haven’t seen the film…
Watch some of the best bits here, the football match between “Manchester United” and “Tottenham Hotspur”.
I lived in an area near where Kes was filmed and all the local people knew someone who claimed to have been in the film, including my uncle’s dad (the farmer, apparently).
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