My Childhood (1972)

My Childhood
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  • Genre: Drama
  • Running time: 47 min
  • Premiere: 5th of June 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.

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Cast

Jean Taylor Smith
as Grandmother
Bernard McKenna
as Tommy's father
Paul Kermack
as Jamie's father
Helena Gloag
as Father's mother

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