My Childhood (1972)
Synopsis
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
Release Date: 1972-06-05
Runtime: 47 minutes
Director: Bill Douglas
Top Cast
- Stephen Archibald as Jamie
- Hughie Restorick as Tommy
- Jean Taylor Smith as Grandmother
- Karl Fieseler as Helmuth
- Bernard McKenna as Tommy's father
- Paul Kermack as Jamie's father
- Helena Gloag as Father's mother
- Ann Smith as Jamie's mother
- Eileen McCallum as Nurse
- Helen Rae as Bus conductress
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