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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.
Keywords
scotland
coming of age
autobiographical
child neglect
animal cruelty
1940s
Casts

Stephen Archibald
Jamie

Hughie Restorick
Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother
Karl Fieseler
Helmuth

Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father

Paul Kermack
Jamie's father

Helena Gloag
Father's mother
Ann Smith
Jamie's mother

Eileen McCallum
Nurse
Helen Rae
Bus conductress
James Eccles
Man singing
Crews

Bill Douglas
Director

Bill Douglas
Writer
Geoffrey Evans
Producer
Mick Campbell
Cinematography
Brand Thumim
Editor
Backdrops & Posters
