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Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence

Jamie leaves the childrens home to live with his paternal grandmother After working in a mine and in a tailors shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding compani

Rich couple Angela amp Richard travel to the home of brother and sister Alex and Marion for dinner but end up clashing with their hosts over their different views And when a destructive storm ruins their dinner plans they go ou

The story of The Tolpuddle Martyrs A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages

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 esca