My Way Home

Overview

Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.

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Bill Douglas Trilogy

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Cast

Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Joseph Blatchley

Robert

Paul Kermack

Jamie's father

Jessie Combe

Father's wife

William Carroll

Their son, Archie

Morag McNee

Father's girlfriend

Lennox Milne

Grandmother

John Young

Shop assistant

Gerald James

Mr Bridge

Radir

Egyptian boy