Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - 'I Know Where I'm Going!' Album

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1	'I Know Where I'm Going!'

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Joan Webster Wendy Hiller is a young middle class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or at least she by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Walter Hudd. A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts. X I'm Watching This Keep track of everything you watch tell your friends. I Know Where I'm Going is a traditional Scottish some sources say Irish ballad about a wealthy love struck young woman pining for her bonnie lover Johnny who some say has a bad reputation. It has been noted since the early nineteenth century. It is Roud number 5701. In some versions the lover is said to be 'black'. This may refer to him being an outlaw or of bad reputation. The song contains the refrain. I know where I'm going. I know who's going with me. Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Joan Webster, Torquil MacNeil, Catriona and others. In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place-the bleak and moody Scottish Hebrides. Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to these remote isles to marry a rich lord. Stranded by stormy weather, she meets a handsome naval officer Roger Livesey who threatens to thwart her carefully laid-out life plans. Language: ENGLISH. I Know Where I'm Going film. I Know Where I'm Going is a 1945 romance film by the British-based filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown and Finlay Currie. Joan Webster Wendy Hiller is a young middle-class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or at least she thinks she does. She travels from her home in Manchester to the Hebrides to marry Sir Robert. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's much-loved romantic drama is a handsome work full of vivid, offbeat characters Pamela Brown is especially striking as an earthy villager always accompanied by a pack of bloodhounds living in a world that's part tradition and part myth. Villagers work and celebrate with the simple spirit of common folk We're not poor, we just haven't any money, Torquil admonishes the materialist Joan. Photo essay by I Know Where I'm Going aficionado Nancy Franklin, who explores the locations used in the film. Read more. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, together known as The Archers, were one of the most influential and audacious film-makers of the 1930s and 40s. Their groundbreaking works include: 'The Red Shoes', 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp', 'A Matter of Life and Death' and 'Black Narcissus'. A L Kennedy is an award-winning writer and stand-up comedian. I Know Where Im Going is a measured and fine work from the directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and while it may not feature that emotional richness and thematic novelty which made The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp such a wonderful work but despite all its shortcomings you can still feel that modern and ahead of time attitude. and creativity of directors which has given their works a unique, forward-looking and profound look. From those opening minutes of the film its obvious that were not going to get a typical comedy, the narration that opens the film along with the. Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell. While awaiting access to England's Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the producer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger dashed off a delightful personal project, I Know Where I'm Going. Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster Wendy Hiller is determined to have the finer things in life, and to that end she plans to marry Sir Robert Bellinger Norman Shelley, a wealthy, middle-aged industrialist whom she does not love. En route to the Island of Mull, where her fu. English director Michael Powell and his Hungarian partner, Emeric Pressburger, formed one of the most remarkable partnerships in cinema. Under the collaborative pseudonym The Archers, the two created a series of highly visual and imaginative treatments of romantic and supernatural themes that have defied easy categorization by film historians. Stephen L. Hanson International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger