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.

7.049

47 min

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

Director

Bill Douglas