My Childhood (1972)

  • NR
  • 06/05/1972 (US)
  • Drama
  • 47m

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.

Bill Douglas

Director, Writer

Cast

Stephen Archibald's headshot

Stephen Archibald

Jamie
Hughie Restorick's headshot

Hughie Restorick

Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith's headshot

Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother
Karl Fieseler's headshot

Karl Fieseler

Helmuth
Bernard McKenna's headshot

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's father
Paul Kermack's headshot

Paul Kermack

Jamie's father
Helena Gloag's headshot

Helena Gloag

Father's mother
Ann Smith's headshot

Ann Smith

Jamie's mother

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