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Cast

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

Crew

G
Geoffrey Evans
Producer
B
Bill Douglas
Writer
M
Mick Campbell
Cinematography
B
Brand Thumim
Editor
B
Bill Douglas
Director

Bill Douglas Trilogy

The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children’s home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.