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I Know Where I'm Going! is a 1945 romance film by the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown and Finlay Currie.
The Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) got its title from this song at the suggestion of Powell's wife Frankie Reidy, and the song was orchestrated and used in the film. The tune is also used throughout the Nicholas Ray film noir They Live by Night (1948).
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie. A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
Feb 19, 2008 · Joan (Wendy Hiller) meets Torquil (Roger Livesey), consults her schedule and gets a quick immersion in the culture of the Scottish Hebrides in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going, 1945.
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist.
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I Know Where I’m Going! In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place—the bleak and moody Scottish Hebrides. Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to these remote isles to marry a rich lord.
Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster is determined to have the finer things in life, and to that end she plans to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy, middle-aged industrialist whom she does not love.
Uniquely romantic Powell and Pressburger masterpiece, with single-minded Wendy Hiller heading to a remote Hebridean island to marry a rich industrialist, then losing the plot when she falls in love with dashing laird Roger Livesey.
I Know Where I’m Going! Headstrong Joan Webster (the wondrous Wendy Hiller) sets off, wedding dress in tow, to marry a rich older man on his remote Hebridean island. Stranded on Mull thanks to the weather, Joan finds herself struggling to cope with the unplanned turn of events.
Overview. Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist.
