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I Know Where I'm Going! is a British film of genre Drama directed by Michael Powell released in USA on 9 august 1947 with Wendy Hiller
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
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Add to a movie listI Know Where I'm Going! is a 1945 romance film by the British-based filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie and Petula Clark in her fourth film appearance.
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Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is a young middle class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or at least she thinks she does. She travels from her home in Manchester to the Hebrides to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a very wealthy, much older industrialist, on the (fictitious) Isle of Kiloran.Actors
Wendy Hiller
(Joan Webster)
Roger Livesey
(Torquil MacNeil)
Pamela Brown
(Catriona)
Finlay Currie
(Ruairidh Mhór)
George Carney
(Mr. Webster)
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