Kes DVD [1969]

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Much of the film's content has been discussed as a critique of the British education system of the time, known as the Tripartite System, which sorted children into different types of schools depending on their academic ability.

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Her final episode was March 1994 - although she did briefly as a ghost in 1996, with residents claiming to have seen her spirit around the street. The film was shot on location, including in St Helens School, Athersley South, and Edward Sheerien School (demolished in 2011); and in and around the streets of Hoyland and Hoyland Common. After wrapping up his role on Kes, David, also known as 'Dai' joined the cast of children's shows The Flaxton Boys and the Jenson Code in 1973.Fifteen-year-old Billy Casper, growing up in the late 1960s in a poor South Yorkshire community dominated by the local coal mining industry, has little hope in life.

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As the relationship between Billy and "Kes", the kestrel, improves during the training, so does Billy's outlook and horizons.The certificate given to the film has occasionally been reviewed by the British Board of Film Classification, as there is a small amount of swearing, including more than one instance of the word twat. A lad from the West Riding of Yorkshire, he once said the only acting he'd ever done was in the headmaster's office. 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. And her time as Coronation Street's Ivy Tilsley earned her the nickname 'Poison Ivy' thanks to her character's sharp tongue and quick wit. I think that Kes represents to Billy the ideal relationship that he finds so difficult to have with the people around him.