My Childhood

My Childhood

Release Date: 1972-06-05
Language: EN
Country: 🇬🇧 GB
Rating: ⭐ 7.0 / 10 ( 48 votes )
Runtime: 47m

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.

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Cast

Stephen Archibald
Stephen Archibald
Jamie
Hughie Restorick
Hughie Restorick
Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith
Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother
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Karl Fieseler
Helmuth
Bernard McKenna
Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father
Paul Kermack
Paul Kermack
Jamie's father
Helena Gloag
Helena Gloag
Father's mother
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Ann Smith
Jamie's mother
Eileen McCallum
Eileen McCallum
Nurse
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Helen Rae
Bus conductress
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James Eccles
Man singing

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