I Know Where I'm Going!

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Call Number: DVD Drama I
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.
Special features include: audio essay by film historian Ian Christie ; behind-the-scene stills ; the 1994 documentary I know where I'm going! Revisited, by Mark Cousins ; excerts from Michael Powell's 1937 feature The edge of the world and the 1978 documentary Return to the edge of the world ; photo essay by Nancy Franklin and home movies from Michael Powell's Scottish expeditions.
"Janus Films."
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, George Carney, Nancy Price, Catherine Lacey, Jean Cadell, John Laurie, Valentine Dyall, Norman Shelley, Margot Fitzsimons, Murdo Morrison, C.W.R. Knight.
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
DVD ; Full screen.

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That sure was a film I watched. submitted by terpsichore17 on July 30, 2021, 1:16pm This movie was recommended to me because of my love for The Decoy Bride and Leap Year. Both of those movies require a lot of suspension of disbelief, premise-wise - but at least they actually illuminate the ways in which Katie and Anna are better suited to James and Declan than Lara and Jeremy, respectively.

I Know Where I'm Going! follows a line much like Leap Year - Joan Webster cannot reach Kiloran to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, and the delay throws her together with Torquil MacNeil, laird of Kiloran and officer on leave.

Torquil gives her a VERY compelling kiss "before she goes" - but there isn't explanation otherwise for why she should suddenly decide that she wants something different than to marry her rich industrialist. She didn't, for example, listen to Bridie/anyone else telling her not to risk sailing through the gale, so there isn't evidence of her listening to Bridie/anyone else on any other point. It just needed a few more minutes of development to be believable.

I will say that the bagpipes and caelidh dancing make for a pleasanter story than otherwise.

slow as molasses, depressively dark B&W photography, inane dialogues, interminable "filling' material instead of Interesting... submitted by Tassos on November 22, 2022, 8:44am Watching it now, and not impressed by it much. The plot is not much and has been frequently redone anyway. Other than that, IF you are of Scottish origin and have not lived there at the time the movie depicts, you may find ot of historical-anthropological-cultural interest. Most of the rest of us, NOT.

So even if I multitask, I am bored with it, I am on scene 9 of.. 23 and it does not look good, I may abandon it soon if it doesn't get interesting.

In addition, the DVD has the WRONG ASPECT RATIO. I tried to use my remote to correct it, but it is not possible, the TV-shaped screen is stretched, which makes everybody look very short and very wide, and unnaturally so. It SUCKS.

So I kept skipping scenes and now I am in the last one before the credits, just out of curiosity to see how the STUPID THING ENDS. BUT EVEN ThAT final 5% of the STUPID movie is SLOW AS MOLASSES so I have it on triple speed fast forward. WHAT A TURKEY! NOT a classic for sure!