Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster isdetermined to have the finer things in life, and to thatend she plans to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy,middle-aged industrialist whom she does not love. Enroute to the Island of Mull, where her future husbandresides, Joan is stranded in a colourful Scottish seacoast town. Inclement weather keeps her groundedfor a week, during which time she falls in love withyoung, insouciant naval officer Torquil McNeil.
Ignoring the dictates of her heart (not to mentioncommon sense), Joan stubbornly insists upon headingout to sea towards her marriage of convenience, butthe exigencies of Mother Nature finally convince herthat her future resides on the mainland. A winnerall the way, I Know Where I’m Going is full of largeand small delights, including a wonderful sense ofregional detail and endearing, three-dimensionalcharacterisations (even the mercenary heroine is alikeable character). The film is easily one of the bestof the Powell-Pressburger films of the 1940s, andarguably the team’s all-time best romantic drama.

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