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I Know Where I'm Going!

I Know Where I'm Going! is a 1945 romance film by the British-based film-makers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie and Petula Clark in her fourth film appearance.Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is a young Englishwoman from a safe middle-class background, but with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or she thinks she does. She travels from her home in Manchester to the Hebrides to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy, much older industrialist, on the Isle of Kiloran.When a gale prevents her taking the final leg of her journey -- a boat to Kiloran -- she is forced to wait it out on the Isle of Mull, among a community of people with values quite foreign to her. There she meets Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey), a handsome naval officer trying to go home for some shore leave. Joan learns that Torquil is the Laird of Kiloran and has leased his island to Bellinger. As the bad weather continues, Torquil takes advantage of the delay to woo Joan, who becomes increasingly torn between her ambition and her growing attraction to Torquil.