My Childhood (1972)
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.
- Date of release
- 1972-06-05
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (57)
- Runtime
- 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Bill Douglas
- Collection
- Bill Douglas Trilogy
Casting
- Stephen Archibald — Jamie
- Hughie Restorick — Tommy
- Jean Taylor Smith — Grandmother
- Karl Fieseler — Helmuth
- Bernard McKenna — Tommy's father
- Paul Kermack — Jamie's father
- Helena Gloag — Father's mother
- Ann Smith — Jamie's mother
- Eileen McCallum — Nurse
- Helen Rae — Bus conductress
- James Eccles — Man singing
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