Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
I Know Where I’m Going!
Love flourishes in the Scottish Hebrides in this windswept enchantment from British cinema’s most passionate visionaries, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. “I know where I’m going!” declares headstrong, upwardly mobile Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) en route to her marriage to a wealthy industrialist—until her carefully laid plans are blown away by a raging storm that leaves her stranded on an island off the Scottish coast with a dashing naval officer (Roger Livesey). Shot in ethereal black and white that enhances the almost mystical air of its setting—a folkloric world where legends and curses still hold sway—this beloved romance is one of cinema’s most stirring expressions of the eternal conflict between the head and the heart.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation, supervised by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring film historian Ian Christie
- Introduction by Scorsese with restoration demonstration featuring commentary by Schoonmaker Powell
- Behind-the-scenes stills narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
- “I Know Where I’m Going!” Revisited, a 1994 documentary by Mark Cousins
- Photo-essay by writer Nancy Franklin exploring the locations used in the film
- Home movies from one of director Michael Powell’s Scottish expeditions, narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
New cover by Thinh Dinh
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation, supervised by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring film historian Ian Christie
- Introduction by Scorsese with restoration demonstration featuring commentary by Schoonmaker Powell
- Behind-the-scenes stills narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
- “I Know Where I’m Going!” Revisited, a 1994 documentary by Mark Cousins
- Photo-essay by writer Nancy Franklin exploring the locations used in the film
- Home movies from one of director Michael Powell’s Scottish expeditions, narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
New cover by Thinh Dinh
Cast
- Wendy Hiller
- Joan Webster
- Roger Livesey
- Torquil MacNeil
- Pamela Brown
- Catriona
- Finlay Currie
- Ruairidh Mhór
- George Carney
- Mr. Webster
- Nancy Price
- Mrs. Crozier
- Catherine Lacey
- Mrs. Robinson
- Jean Cadell
- Postmistress
- John Laurie
- John Campbell
- Valentine Dyall
- Mr. Robinson
- Norman Shelley
- Sir Robert Bellinger
- Margot Fitzsimons
- Bridie
- Murdo Morrison
- Kenny
- Captain C. W. R. Knight, FZS
- Colonel Barnstaple
- Petula Clark
- Cheril
Credits
- Director
- Michael Powell
- Director
- Emeric Pressburger
- Written and produced by
- Michael Powell
- Written and produced by
- Emeric Pressburger
- Photographed by
- Erwin Hillier
- Edited by
- John Seabourne
- Music composed by
- Allan Gray
- Production designed by
- Alfred Junge
A scene from I Know Where I’m Going!
