My Childhood

1972

English

7.3

♡ 7

89%

Bill Douglas Director

Helen Rae as Bus Conductress

Ann Smith as Jamie's Mother

Eileen McCallum as Nurse

Helen Crummy as Schoolteacher

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.