My Childhood
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.
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 46m
- Released
- 1972
Details
Release year: 1972
Storyline
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.
Top credits
- Stephen Archibald — Jamie
- Hughie Restorick — Tommy
- Jean Taylor Smith — Grandmother
- Karl Fieseler — Helmuth