Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) and Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey) look on at a Ceilidh.

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Story

Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is an young Englishwoman from a safe middle-class background, but with a independent spirit. She travels to the Scottish isles to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy industrialist lording it over the Isle of Killoran. When bad weather prevents her taking a boat to Killoran, she is forced to wait it out on the Isle of Mull, a community of people with values quite foreign to her. There she meets Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey), a handsome naval officer returned home on shore leave. As the bad weather continues, MacNeil takes advantage of the opportunity to woo Joan, who becomes increasingly unsure about her ambitious marriage plans. Dame Wendy Hiller (August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003) was an English film and stage actress. ... This article is about the Hebrides islands in Scotland. ... Tobermory with 700 people, the largest settlement on Mull, is home to the only whisky distillery on the island. ... Roger Livesey as Clive Candy, in the duel scene from Colonel Blimp. ...

The film also features Pamela Brown as Catriona Potts, an independently-spirited country women, Finlay Currie as a dour fisherman and boatman, and an early appearance by Petula Clark as Cheril, a precocious little girl. Petula Clark on the cover of her collection Petula Clark: The Ultimate Collection Petula Clark, CBE is a British singer, actress, and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. ...

Criticism

"I've never seen a picture which smelled of the wind and rain in quite this way nor one which so beautifully exploited the kind of scenery people actually live with, rather than the kind which is commercialized as a show place." --- Raymond Chandler, Letters

"The cast makes the best possible use of some natural, unforced dialogue, and there is some glorious outdoor photography." --- The Times, November 14, 1945

"[It] has interest and integrity. It deserves to have successors." --- The Guardian, November 16, 1945

"I reached the point of thinking there were no more masterpieces to discover, until I saw I Know Where I'm Going!" -- Martin Scorsese

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References

Pam Cook (2002). I Know Where I'm Going!, Film Classics Series, BFI Publishing, ISBN 0851708145.

External links

• I Know Where I'm Going! (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/438707/) at screenonline. Full synopsis and film stills (and clips viewable from UK libraries).
• The Criterion Collection DVD (http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=94), with a synopsis and critical essay.
• I Know Where I'm Going! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037800/) at the Internet Movie Database
• I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252766/) at the Internet Movie Database. A documentary about the people and places in the film.
• Reviews and articles (http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/45_IKWIG) at the Powell & Pressburger Pages (http://www.powell-pressburger.org)

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