I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING (1945) And then again ...

Like the other films by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, aka The Archers, I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING is a character-driven, highly personal work of extraordinary beauty and taste about a world of love, honor, tradition and civility. Wendy Hiller plays a headstrong young British woman who, since birth, has known where she's headed in life – namely, to the alter with a rich man. But when bad weather prevents her from reaching the Scottish isle where awaits her father-figured fiancée and employer (whom she barely knows), she finds herself falling in love with a charming local laird (mayor) (Roger Livesay), and discovers that what she really wants is true love. Filmed in the achingly beautiful Scottish Hebrides, the movie has mystical overtones and is nothing short of magical. (Look for pre-teen Petula Clark, who had her own cartoon strip in the '40s and was a pop singer in the '60s.)