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.
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Stephen Archibald as Jamie
Hughie Restorick as Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith as Grandmother
Karl Fieseler as Helmuth
Bernard McKenna as Tommy's father
Paul Kermack as Jamie's father
Helena Gloag as Father's mother
Ann Smith as Jamie's mother
Eileen McCallum as Nurse
Helen Rae as Bus conductress
James Eccles as Man singing
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