The film Kes is based on which book by the author Barry Hines?
Kes (film) Kes (film) Kes is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ken Loach (credited as Kenneth Loach) and produced by Tony Garnett. The film is based on the 1968 novel "A Kestrel for a Knave", written by the Barnsley-born author Barry Hines. The film is ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten (British) Films and among the top ten in its list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. This is Loach's second feature film for cinema release. Fifteen-year-old Billy Casper has little hope in life. He is picked on, both at home
Barry Hines in the Yorkshire dialect. Ken Loach wrote, "He loved language and his ear for the dialect and its comedy was pitch perfect." Loach's film "Looks and Smiles" (1981), based on a novel by Hines and adapted for the screen by the author, won the Best Contemporary Screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival. "Kes" won a number of awards, including a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best British Screenplay and a BAFTA nomination for Best Screenplay. "Threads" (1984) won a special award at the 1985 Monte-Carlo Television Festival, the Broadcasting Press Guild Award in 1985 for Best Single