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My Childhood( 1972)

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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

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      Stephen Archibald

      Jamie

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      Hughie Restorick

      Tommy

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      Jean Taylor Smith

      Grandmother

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      Karl Fieseler

      Helmuth

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      Bernard McKenna

      Tommy's father

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      Paul Kermack

      Jamie's father

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      Helena Gloag

      Father's mother

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      Ann Smith

      Jamie's mother

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      Eileen McCallum

      Nurse

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      Helen Rae

      Bus conductress

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      James Eccles

      Man singing

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • scotland
    • coming of age
    • autobiographical
    • child neglect
    • animal cruelty
    • 1940s