Plot:

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.

Tags:

Actors - Crew

Stephen Archibald
Jamie

Hughie Restorick
Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother

Karl Fieseler
Helmuth

Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father

Paul Kermack
Jamie's father

Bill Douglas
Director

Geoffrey Evans
Producer

Mick Campbell
Cinematography

Brand Thumim
Editor

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