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My Childhood (1972)

NR Jun 05, 1972 Drama 0h 47m
User Score
70%
48 votes
Internet Movie Database
73%

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.

Bill Douglas
Director

Part of the Bill Douglas Trilogy

Includes My Childhood and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Stephen Archibald
Stephen Archibald

Jamie
Hughie Restorick
Hughie Restorick

Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith
Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother
Karl Fieseler
Karl Fieseler

Helmuth
Bernard McKenna
Bernard McKenna

Tommy's father
Paul Kermack
Paul Kermack

Jamie's father
Helena Gloag
Helena Gloag

Father's mother
Ann Smith
Ann Smith

Jamie's mother
Eileen McCallum
Eileen McCallum

Nurse

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Media

Bill Douglas Trilogy-trailer.mp4
Bill Douglas Trilogy-trailer.mp4
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