My Childhood
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- Runtime
- 47 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Stephen Archibald
- Hughie Restorick
- Jean Taylor Smith
- Karl Fieseler
- Bernard McKenna
- Paul Kermack
- Helena Gloag
- Ann Smith
- Eileen McCallum
- Helen Rae
- James Eccles
Director
- Bill Douglas
Producers
- Geoffrey Evans
