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My Childhood (1972)

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69
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NR 47 minJun 5th, 1972DramaBill Douglas Trilogy PosterPart of Bill Douglas Trilogy
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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.
StarringStephen ArchibaldHughie RestorickJean Taylor Smith
DirectorBill Douglas
WriterBill Douglas

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 5th, 1972
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BFI
Movie Tags:
coming of age1940sscotlandautobiographicalanimal crueltychild neglect

Bill Douglas Trilogy

The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children’s home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.