My Childhood

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1972 · 47 min · NR · Drama · TMDB 7.1/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Bill Douglas

Cast

• Stephen Archibald — Jamie
• Hughie Restorick — Tommy
• Jean Taylor Smith — Grandmother
• Karl Fieseler — Helmuth
• Bernard McKenna — Tommy's father