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I Know Where I'm Going!

  • 1945
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
DramaRomance

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.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.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.

  • Directors
    • Michael Powell
    • Emeric Pressburger
  • Writers
    • Michael Powell
    • Emeric Pressburger
  • Stars
    • Wendy Hiller
    • Roger Livesey
    • George Carney
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    9.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Michael Powell
      • Emeric Pressburger
    • Writers
      • Michael Powell
      • Emeric Pressburger
    • Stars
      • Wendy Hiller
      • Roger Livesey
      • George Carney
    • 117User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Pamela Brown, Margot Fitzsimons, and Wendy Hiller in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Pamela Brown, Wendy Hiller, and Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
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    Margot Fitzsimons in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Wendy Hiller in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

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    Wendy Hiller
    Wendy Hiller
    • Joan Webster
    Roger Livesey
    Roger Livesey
    • Torquil MacNeil
    George Carney
    George Carney
    • Mr. Webster
    Walter Hudd
    Walter Hudd
    • Hunter
    Duncan MacKechnie
    • Capt. 'Lochinvar'
    • (as Captain Duncan MacKechnie)
    Ian Sadler
    • Iain
    Finlay Currie
    Finlay Currie
    • Ruairidh Mhór
    Murdo Morrison
    • Kenny
    Margot Fitzsimons
    Margot Fitzsimons
    • Bridie
    C.W.R. Knight
    C.W.R. Knight
    • Col. Barnstaple
    • (as Captain C.W.R. Knight F.Z.S.)
    Pamela Brown
    Pamela Brown
    • Catriona
    Donald Strachan
    • Shepherd
    John Rae
    • Old Shepherd
    Duncan McIntyre
    • His Son
    Jean Cadell
    Jean Cadell
    • Postmistress
    Norman Shelley
    • Sir Robert Bellinger
    • (voice)
    Ivy Milton
    • Peigi
    Anthony Eustrel
    Anthony Eustrel
    • Hooper
    • (as Antony Eustrel)
    • Directors
      • Michael Powell
      • Emeric Pressburger
    • Writers
      • Michael Powell
      • Emeric Pressburger
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    • Trivia
      In 1947 Emeric Pressburger met the head of the script department at Paramount, who told him that the studio used this film as an example of the perfect screenplay, and was shown to writers stuck for inspiration or who needed a lesson in screenwriting.
    • Goofs
      In the opening credits, as the factory gate swings shut the top bar on it is partially obscured by the hanging miniature that adds another floor to the factory - which is really the front offices of Denham Studios.
    • Quotes

      Catriona Potts: You'll stay here tonight of course.

      Joan Webster: Well I don't want to be any trouble.

      Catriona Potts: Oh it's no trouble at all. Besides I haven't heard any intelligent female nonsense for months.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening cast credits appear on the end of a baby's cot; all other credits are chalked on a children's blackboard, appear on the side and rear of a horse drawn milk van and on a board attached to a metal factory gate.
    • Alternate versions
      When Bridie and Joan are arguing in Joan's bedroom when Joan is about to try to get to the island, Bridie has a little speech where she says "Some folks there are, who want to drown fine young men and break young girls' hearts so that they can be bedded one day sooner." Risqué stuff for 1945. It was dubbed in the initial American release for her to say "wedded" instead of "bedded".
    • Connections
      Featured in Arena: A Pretty British Affair (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      I Know Where I'm Going
      (uncredited)

      Traditional County Antrim song

      Sung by Boyd Steven with The Glasgow Orpheus Choir

    User reviews117

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    Love in the Highlands
    The title "I Know Where I'm Going" refers to a declaration made by the film's heroine, a middle-class English girl (acted by Wendy Hiller) who's determined to get to the top of the social rung by any means legal. She has just become engaged to Sir Robert Bellinger, one of the country's richest industrialists. She knows where she's going all right: To the Scottish isle of Killoran, where her future as Lady Bellinger is to be confirmed in matrimony.

    Yet Killoran may as well be the planet Mars. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't get there. At first, it's only the foggy weather that prevents her from ferrying across to Gretna Green. Then the fog is cleared away by gale-force winds. Later though, it's as if the atmosphere itself, something in the old castle legends and superstitions that conspire to keep her away from everything she's wanted. Yet she is stubborn, even bribing a boy to pilot a small boat to Killoran in the midst of a huge squall - a move that proves nearly fatal. She's determined to get "where she is going," but she's turned away once again -- by the elements as well as the realization that she has become emotionally attached to a young naval officer on leave (Roger Livesey).

    This is a tightly written and performed effort. There isn't a single wasted motion. The images are memorable too. Pamela Brown, plays the poor huntress Catriona, silhouetted against the gray Northern sky with a shotgun in one hand, the other hand tethered to a leash restraining her dogs as they make their way up a brae; Finley Curray's weather-beaten face in close-up says more about his salty character than his sage dialogue; and there's an amusing cameo by a pre-teen Petula Clark, reading Edmund Spenser at the breakfast table. Just the sort of ironic juxtaposition one might expect from this movie's masterful director, Michael Powell.
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    • nk_gillen
    • Jun 22, 2004

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    • Release date
      • August 9, 1947 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • Gaelic
    • Also known as
      • IKWIG
    • Filming locations
      • Carsaig pier, Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK(Quay scenes)
    • Production company
      • The Archers
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    • Budget
      • £200,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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