Qualla: I Know Where I'm Going! https://qualla.com/i-know-where-i-m-going en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: I Know Where I'm Going! https://qualla.com/i-know-where-i-m-going I Know Where I'm Going!: Introduction https://qualla.com/i-know-where-i-m-going/ Emeric Pressburger wrote the screenplay in four days. "It just burst out," he said. "You couldn't hold back." The story he and Michael Powell told - of a young Englishwoman determined to marry a millionaire on a Hebridean island, then trapped by weather among people whose values turn her plans upside down - became one of the strangest romantic comedies in British film. I Know Where I'm Going!, released in November 1945 with Wendy Hiller in the lead, is set in the Inner Hebrides between Mull and Colonsay, with its climactic sequence shot in the Gulf of Corryvreckan. Martin Scorsese said in 1993 that he had reached the point of thinking there were no more masterpieces left to discover, until he saw it.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/i-know-where-i-m-going-wp/gcgz-i-know-where-im-going-the-crusade-against-materialism.mp3 0:06 2 full I Know Where I'm Going!: Joan and Torquil https://qualla.com/i-know-where-i-m-going/ Joan Webster is twenty-five, ambitious, upper middle class, and engaged to Sir Robert Bellinger, an industrialist near her father's age who has rented an entire Hebridean island called Kiloran. She "always knows where she's going." On the Isle of Mull, fog and gale halt the boat ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/i-know-where-i-m-going-wp/gcgz-i-know-where-im-going-the-whirlpool-scene.mp3 0:06 4 full I Know Where I'm Going!: The Curse at Moy https://qualla.com/i-know-where-i-m-going/ Earlier in the film Joan and Torquil walk past the ruins of Moy Castle. Torquil refuses to enter. The curse, he explains, applies to any MacNeil laird who crosses the threshold: he will be chained to a woman until his death. The story of the curse is medieval and grim - a wife an...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/i-know-where-i-m-going-wp/gcgz-i-know-where-im-going-the-curse-at-moy.mp3 0:06 5 full I Know Where I'm Going!: What the Hebrides Sound Like https://qualla.com/i-know-where-i-m-going/ The film was a hit, recouping its cost in the United Kingdom alone and taking $1.2 million in the United States. Critics were generous about everything except the plot. The Monthly Film Bulletin praised "affectionate and sympathetic handling of the Highland setting" while admitti...

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