My Childhood (1972)

My Childhood

1972

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Bill Douglas

Cast

Ann Smith as Jamie's mother

Bernard McKenna as Tommy's father

Eileen McCallum as Nurse

Helen Rae as Bus conductress

Helena Gloag as Father's mother

Hughie Restorick as Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith as Grandmother

Karl Fieseler as Helmuth