Released:
1972-06-05

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.

Director:
Bill Douglas

Runtime:
0h 47min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Stephen Archibald
  as
  Jamie
• 
  Hughie Restorick
  as
  Tommy
• 
  Jean Taylor Smith
  as
  Grandmother
• 
  Karl Fieseler
  as
  Helmuth
• 
  Bernard McKenna
  as
  Tommy's father