My Ain Folk **** (1973, Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8808

In My Ain Folk (1973), part two of writer-director Bill Douglas’s autobiographical British drama The Bill Douglas Trilogy, Jamie (Stephen Archibald), the unwanted Scots boy of My Childhood (1972), who is living with his grandmother (Jean Taylor Smith), discovers that the man living next door is his father.

Jamie is left all alone and miserable when Tommy (Hughie Restorick) is taken to a welfare home.

The main cast are Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna, Paul Kermack, Helena Gloag, Jessie Combe, William Carroll and Anne McLeod.

The Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Ain Folk is directed by Bill Douglas, runs 55 minutes, is made by British Film Institute (BFI), is released by Connoisseur, is written by Bill Douglas, is shot in black and white by Gale Tattersall and is produced by Nick Nascht.

The film offers special thanks to Lindsay Anderson.

It was released on DVD by BFI Video in 2008 in the UK.

The final film in The Bill Douglas Trilogy is My Way Home (1978).

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