My Childhood (1972)

06/05/1972 (GB) • 47m

Drama

Overview

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 Billed Cast

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's father

Paul Kermack

Jamie's father

Helena Gloag

Father's mother

Ann Smith

Jamie's mother


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Part of the Bill Douglas Trilogy

Includes My Ain Folk, My Childhood, My Way Home

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

scotland

coming of age

autobiographical

child neglect

animal cruelty

1940s

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