Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Wendy Hillier, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown. Uk Drama 90’
If ‘Black Narcissus’ conclusively demonstrated Michael Powell’s skills as a director by recreating India at Pinewood, ‘I Know Where I’m Going’ anticipated it by managing to take Roger Livesey to the Outer Hebrides without him ever leaving England.
Although apparently dissimilar the opposing temperaments of Powell & Pressburger dovetailed beautifully as exemplified by this film combining Powell’s Celtic bravado with Pressburger’s Austro-Hungarian romanticism.
After looking askance at Powell’s recent kinky shenanigans in ‘A Canterbury Tale’ the critics on this occasion positively turned over and purred, James Agee grudgingly declaring it free of their liabilities “inordinate ambition, bumptiousness, and a general unevenness of judgment”. @RichardChatten