My Childhood (1972)
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.
- Released
- 1972-06-05
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 47 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Bill Douglas
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 from 57 votes
Cast
- Stephen Archibald as Jamie
- Hughie Restorick as Tommy
- Jean Taylor Smith as Grandmother
- Karl Fieseler as Helmuth
- Bernard McKenna as Tommy's father
- Paul Kermack as Jamie's father
- Helena Gloag as Father's mother
- Ann Smith as Jamie's mother
- Eileen McCallum as Nurse
- Helen Rae as Bus conductress
- James Eccles as Man singing