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5001 Nights in the Movies
I Know Where I'm Going!

From "5001 Nights in the Movies" by Pauline Kael

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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) - This romance is set in large part during a gale in the Western Isles of Scotland. It features dense fog, a squall, and a huge, roaring whirlpool. It also features Art Deco images of the young Wendy Hiller as an assured, impudent working girl who is scheduled to marry a rotten-rich, middle-aged tycoon, until she's caught up in that storm. She meets a kind-faced naval officer (Roger Livesey); he's the impoverished Laird of Kiloran, and after a few days and nights of his gentle Gaelic voice she's thoroughly confused. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, this is a charmer of a movie. In a party sequence we listen to the rapid group singing of the Highlanders: [Actually Glaswegians, does Glasgow count as "Highland"?] it's a soul-satisfying interlude. The cinematography is by Erwin Hillier; the art direction is by Alfred Junge. With Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, Nancy Price, Jean Cadell, Catherine Lacey, Valentine Dyall, George Carney, Margot Fitzsimons, John Laurie, [Ends with a comma. Who else was listed?]

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