Sunday 7 August 2005

I Know Where I'm Going (1945)

What a difference between this movie and the British film of the same period that I watched a few days ago.  This little charmer, written, produced and directed by Powell and Pressburger, is everything that the other was not: beautifully photographed in the Western Isles to give a true sense of place and winningly acted.by all concerned.  Wendy Hiller plays a no-nonsense young lady travelling from Manchester to a Hebridean isle to marry a wealthy, older industrialist, and has no intention of letting anything stand in her way.  Her journey is interrupted by bad weather before the final crossing and she meets, among others, Roger Livesey an impoverished local laird on furlough from the navy.  From there onward we all know where the picture is going and we don't mind one little bit.

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