Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Bill Douglas
Written : Bill Douglas
Stars : Stephen Archibald Hughie Restorick Jean Taylor Smith Karl Fieseler
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Sep 23, 1982
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : German Scots
Filming locations : Newcraighall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Production companies : British Film Institute (BFI)
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Sep 23, 1982
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : German Scots
Filming locations : Newcraighall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Production companies : British Film Institute (BFI)
