My Childhood

My Childhood (1972)

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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.

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Cast

Stephen Archibald

Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Hughie Restorick

Hughie Restorick

Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith

Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother

Bernard McKenna

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's father

Paul Kermack

Paul Kermack

Jamie's father

Helena Gloag

Helena Gloag

Father's mother

Eileen McCallum

Eileen McCallum

Nurse