I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) on Netflix
Joan Webster leaves Manchester for the Hebridean island of Kiloran to marry wealthy Sir Robert Bellinger. Bad weather strands her on Mull, where naval officer Torquil MacNeil is also waiting.
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Plot summary
Twenty-five years old and from Manchester, Joan Webster is certain of what she wants. She has accepted a proposal from Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy industrialist nearly her father's age, whom she does not love, and the wedding is to be held on Kiloran, the Hebridean island he owns. The last leg of her journey is a short boat crossing from the Isle of Mull, and bad weather stops it. Torquil MacNeil, a Royal Navy officer on eight days' shore leave, is waiting for the same crossing. While the gale holds, Joan gets to know the islanders, among them the boatman Ruairidh Mhór and Catriona Potts, who has known Torquil since they were children, in a community whose values differ from her own.
Cast
- Margot Fitzsimonsas Bridie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
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- Though much of the film was shot in the Hebrides, Roger Livesey was performing in Peter Ustinov's West End play The Banbury Nose, so all his scenes were shot at Denham studio, with a double he coached in London used for the Scottish shots.
- I Know Where I'm Going! was originally meant to star Deborah Kerr and James Mason, but Kerr could not get out of her MGM contract, so Wendy Hiller was cast instead.
- Six weeks before filming, James Mason pulled out because he did not want to go on location; Roger Livesey asked for the part, and though Powell thought him too old and portly, Livesey lost four or five kilos and lightened his hair to convince him.
- A wartime shortage of Technicolor film stock, all of it going to Ministry of Information training films, held up Powell and Pressburger's plans for A Matter of Life and Death; Pressburger instead suggested a romantic comedy carrying their "crusade against materialism" theme.
- Emeric Pressburger wrote the screenplay of I Know Where I'm Going! in four days, saying it "just burst out, you couldn't hold back".
- Nobody in the film ever reaches Kiloran; the fictional isle is based on Colonsay, south of Mull, and its name was borrowed from Colonsay's Kiloran Bay, yet no footage was shot on Colonsay.
