Kes.

[Mozzer]

It's on Talking Pictures TV, Virgin channel 445

Cheers for that.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Future Brookside character Harry Cross appears in the film, running the fish and chip shop.
Casper's mum - Lynne Perrie - her brother Dougie Brown is the milkman at the beginning

 

[manclad]

Future Brookside character Harry Cross appears in the film, running the fish and chip shop.
Casper's mum - Lynne Perrie - her brother Dougie Brown is the milkman at the beginning

"Yeah well, my dad's bigger than your dad!!!

Well that's ok ,cos my dad is the heavyweight champion of the world"!!!!

 

[doots]

I think she's put me on ignore.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

 

[knuckles]

I read a book about all of Loach's films.
Originally the kids were told they would not be hit and it would be shot from behind to make it look like they were hit.
2 mins before shooting the scene, the head is told to hit them......Loach said it was the only way to get the authentic response from the kids from being hit......
Once the original shoot was over Loach wanted to do a few more takes and the kids refused - but as you correctly said, they came to an agreement for 50p for each further whack (the kids were on £11 a day) - all apart from the little kid who had only gone there to deliver a note. He was exempt from further whacks.

Fantastic film that I never fail to watch once a year. Remember showing it to my kids when they were at North Manchester High School for Girls and they didn't believe that us kids going to school in the 60's and 70's were treated to such brutal regimes

Well I went to North Manchester School for Boys in the 70s/80s and it really did happen almost exactly like the film! - Except our school wasn't posh enough to have Kestrels, the odd pigeon but no Kestrels !!!!

 

[Barcon]

I think she's alright and the weirdo's that follow her around the forum probably should not be allowed anywhere near a school.

 

[idahoblues]

I think she's alright and the weirdo's that follow her around the forum probably should not be allowed anywhere near a school.

woman be crazy

 

[Barcon]

woman be crazy

True dat.

 

[bluemc1]

Remember the whole class waiting for the teacher to get to the page with swearing in reading Kestrel for a knave and all waiting on pins to see if he would read it :)