CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

JohnHowardReid Director: MICHAEL POWELL. Screenplay: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Photography: Erwin Hillier. Film editor: John Seabourne. Music composed by Allan Gray, conducted by Walter Goehr. Art director: Alfred Junge. Camera operator: Cecil Cooney. Special effects: Henry Harris. Assistant director: John Tunstall. Some members of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir appear by arrangement with Sir Hugh Roberton, principal. Sound recording: C. C. Stevens. Western Electric Sound System. Associate producer: George Busby. The producers wish to thank Ian McKenzie of Iona, Gaelic adviser Malcolm MacKellaig, John Laurie for the Ceilidh sequences, and good friends at Colonsay and the Island of Mull. Filmed on the Western Isles of Scotland and at Denham Studios, England. Producers: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. A Production of The Archers.Copyright 11 December 1947 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. A Prestige picture, presented by J. Arthur Rank. U.S. release through Universal-International: August 1947. New York opening at the Sutton: 19 August 1947. U.K. release through General Film Distributors: 17 December 1945. Australian release through G-B- D/20th Century-Fox: 27 March 1947. 8,175 feet. 91 minutes.NOTES: Although it didn't make the Top Ten, "I Know Where I'm Going" figures on the New York Times supplementary list of four films that "just missed".COMMENT: "I Know Where I'm Going — And Who Is Going With Me." So runs the first lines of the song, heard under the credits of this delightfully winning picture of Scottish life and customs as seen through the eyes of a girl who thought she knew her own destiny. Wendy Hiller is the girl — and a more gracious, charming, completely believable actress would be difficult to find. Roger Livesey is the unintended companion — and his is the most sympathetic and appealing of all his portrayals.The way of destiny is rough, both literally and metaphorically, but the journey takes in some marvelously off-beat yet completely human characters in settings as ruggedly picturesque as the most ardent armchair traveler could wish. Chief amongst the humans (to all of us except The New York Times which doesn't list him at all, though Captain MacKechnie who is on screen for less than five seconds in a montage sequence is billed ninth from the top) is the famous falconer Captain C.W.R. Knight, making what I believe is his only in-front-of-the- camera feature. (He narrated the 1929 Filming of the Golden Eagle and produced the 1930 Sea Hawks). There are plenty of others we could cite as well. They pop up at every turn: a bus-load of shooters, a party of revelers at a "kayley", a stuck-up family of rich Sassenachs, an impoverished postmistress, a calmly philosophical boatman and his too-eager son...It all comes, as they say, to a grand climax, with the plot strands of myth and legend, of Fate and self-determination, of ambition and romance, coming together beautifully in an edge-of-the-seat whirlwind (terrific special effects).Superbly photographed and scored, with an often suitably and delightfully quirky yet imaginative direction (for example the station master's top hat that turns into an engine smoke-stack), I Know Where I'm Going is one of the most original and most entertaining products of wartime British cinema.OTHER VIEWS: Powell and Pressburger here turn their satiric spotlight, impish humor and budget largess on the mercenary designs of a seemingly self-assured young miss who makes a wartime pilgrimage to the western isles of Scotland to marry a wealthy industrialist whose pocket-book has bought the co-operation of every person in the United Kingdom — except God. Superb scenery, both indoors (Denham/Junge) and out (Mull/nature). Lilting music. Great cast. It all adds up to exceptional entertainment. – John Howard Reid writing as Charles Freeman.

kijii I don't think I was even familiar with Powell and Pressburger until a couple of years ago. But, due to the IMDb Classic Film Board, this will make the 8th of their movies that I've seen, and they still surprise and delight me! Powell and Pressburger co-wrote, produced, and directed this romantic comedy. Michael Powell used a setting, the Scottish Hebrides, much like the one that he had fallen in love with while making The Edge of the World (1937).This movie, like, Vincente Minnelli's 1954 musical, Brigadoon, contrasts the modern city life to the more mystic and mythical Scottish traditional life. When a city person--like Gene Kelly in Brigadoon or Wendy Hiller in I Know Where I'm Gong!--travels to a "simpler" place, they not only unexpectedly find love but also find another type of rooting beyond their city values.The enjoyable part is watching them in the progress of their discovery. One of the biggest jokes of this movie is it's title: Wendy Hiller may THINK she knows where she is going but really has no idea. Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is an English working-class social climber, bent on marrying a rich chemical magnate who lives on a Scottish island in the Hebrides. However, when she goes to there to marry him, she gets "stuck," due to the unpredictable weather, between the island that she can see—almost touch—and the mainland inhabited by Scottish folk.While waiting to get to the island, Joan is introduced to the locals' song, dance, myth, humor, and tradition as well as the penniless laird named Torquil (Roger Livesey). This 'getting stuck between two places' acts as a metaphor for a crossroads where she must decide what is right for her life. This movie is another Archer masterpiece.

Prismark10 From the opening segment from this less known Powell & Pressburger production we feel that you are going to get their insightful but quirky and offbeat film. However I found this to be a slight effort and not very romantic or stirring.Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) since childhood knew what she wanted out of life. She is on her way to the isle of Kiloran in the Hebrides from Manchester to marry a wealthy and elderly industrialist. A marriage of convenience for her.Stranded by bad weather on the Isle of Mull, she meets naval officer, Torquil and is taken by him. She also later finds out that he is the Laird of Kiloran and her fiancé is actually leasing the island from him.Realising that she is falling for Torquil she desperately wants to make it to Kiloran and bribes a young sailor to take her there in heavy storm and Torquil follows and saves the boat from going sucked in a whirlpool. Both discern that they really were meant to be with each other.The film has a picture pretty Highland setting as you see people getting on with island life during the war. They might be poor but they are happy.The problem is Joan has not lost much by trading down from a rich old industrialist to a younger Laird who is more appealing to the heart. She pursuits her aims by selfish means even it results in a young sailor to potentially lose his life. This is not a person to root for in a romantic film, a heroine that appears to be cold and we are unsure that she has seen the errors of her ways.I believe that the film was written quickly and some of the sub- plots such as that of the eagle does look like filler.

edwagreen The plot and entire story can be summed up in about 10 minutes. This is so highly predictable. As Joan, the future Dame Wendy Hiller, appeared too old in 1945 to tackle the part of a young adventuress, who from early childhood knew where she was going, or at least she thought so. Her screen companion in this unbelievably dull film is Roger Livesey. He sounds like he has hot potatoes in his mouth, and his voice resembles Nigel Bruce, foil to Basil Rathbone in the "Sherlock Holmes" films.You know that the constant rough winds will not allow Joan and her fiancée to meet, and you know where this is going. Livesey, as a lieutenant, falling for her.Everyone keeps mentioning Kilcoran. You have no idea where this is and what they're talking about. True love is discovered on the high seas.The supporting characters in this disappointing film are very boring as well. While it is true that money isn't everything, neither is this picture worth the money or anything.