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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) was the first post-war film from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the writer-producer-director team known as The Archers.

Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is an independent young Englishwoman who travels to the Scottish isles to marry Sir Robert Belliinger, a wealthy industrialist and the current Laird of Kiloran. When bad weather prevents her taking a boat to Kiloran, she is forced to wait it out on the Isle of Mull. There she meets Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey), a handsome navel officer returned home on shore leave. As the bad weather continues, she becomes increasingly unsure about her ambitious marriage plans.

"IKWIG!" was made in black and white by Powell and Pressburger while they waited for the Technicolor equipment to make A Matter Of Life And Death. Although not one of the pair's most famous films, IKWIG! has made a deep impression on many, thanks in part to its atmospheric evocation of the Scottish isles and Erwin Hillier's cinematography.

"I've never seen a picture which smelled of the wind and rain in quite this way nor one which so beautifully exploited the kind of scenery people actually live with, rather than the kind which is commercialized as a show place." --- Raymond Chandler
"I reached the point of thinking there were no more masterpieces to discover, until I saw I Know Where I'm Going!" -- Martin Scorsese
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