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My Childhood (1972)

US:: NR Drama

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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1972-06-05

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scotland coming of age autobiographical child neglect animal cruelty 1940s

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Runtime: 48 mins Rating: 6.6

Cast

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's Father

Helena Gloag

Father's Mother

Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother

Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Hughie Restorick

Tommy

Karl Fieseler

Helmuth

Paul Kermack

Jamie's Father

Ann Smith

Jamie's Mother

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Cast

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's Father

Helena Gloag

Father's Mother

Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother

Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Hughie Restorick

Tommy

Karl Fieseler

Helmuth

Paul Kermack

Jamie's Father

Ann Smith

Jamie's Mother

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's Father

Helena Gloag

Father's Mother

Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother

Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Hughie Restorick

Tommy

Karl Fieseler

Helmuth

Paul Kermack

Jamie's Father

Ann Smith

Jamie's Mother

Eileen McCallum

Nurse

Helen Rae

Bus Conductress

James Eccles

Man Singing

Crew

Bill Douglas

Director

Bill Douglas

Writer

Geoffrey Evans

Producer

Mick Campbell

Cinematography

Brand Thumim

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