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==Plot==
Joan Webster is a 25-year-old, [[upper middle class]] Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit, who always "knows where she's going". She leaves her home in [[Manchester]] for the isle of Kiloran in the [[Hebrides]] to marry industrialist Sir Robert Bellinger,
She reaches the [[Isle of Mull]]. When bad weather prevents Bellinger from retrieving her for the short boat trip to Kiloran, she is forced to wait it out among a community of people whose values are quite different from hers. There she meets Torquil MacNeil, a [[Royal Navy]] officer trying to get home to Kiloran while on an 8-day [[shore leave]]. She also meets some of the residents, such as the boatman Ruairidh Mhór, the eccentric [[falconry|falconer]] Colonel Barnstaple, and the poor but proud gentry Catriona Potts, a friend of Torquil's since childhood who takes them in for the night.
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===Music===
John Laurie was the choreographer and arranger for the [[cèilidh]] sequences.<ref>Powell (1986) pp. 537–538)</ref> The [[puirt à beul]] "Macaphee"<ref>[http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/45_IKWIG/Macaphee.html Macaphee song]</ref> was performed by Boyd Steven, Maxwell Kennedy and Jean Houston of the [[Glasgow Orpheus Choir]].<ref name=BFIftp>{{cite web |title=I Know Where I'm Going!; (1945) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ace5f91 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629120236/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ace5f91 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref> The song sung at the cèilidh that Torquil translates for Joan is a traditional [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] song "Ho ro, mo nighean donn bhòidheach", originally translated into English as "Ho ro My Nut Brown Maiden" by [[John Stuart Blackie]] in 1882. It is also played by three pipers marching toward Moy Castle at the start of the final scene.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Howard Angus |title=Professor Blackie His Sayings and Doings |date=November 1895 |publisher=James Clark & Co |___location=London |page=193}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Tony |title=Structures of desire : British cinema, 1939-1955 |date=10 August 2000 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-0-7914-4643-0 |page=71}}</ref> The film's other music is traditional Scottish and Irish songs<ref>[http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/45_IKWIG/Music.html Music in IKWIG]</ref> and original music by [[Allan Gray (composer)|Allan Gray]].<ref name=BFIftp/>
=== Restoration ===
In 2023, the film was restored and scanned in [[4K resolution]], by the [[British Film Institute]], The process was overseen by [[Martin Scorsese]] and Thelma Schoonmaker Powell.<ref>{{cite web |title=I Know Where I'm Going! |url=https://www.film-foundation.org/rsr-may-2022 |website=Film Foundation |access-date=19 July 2025}}</ref>
==Locations==
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** [[Carsaig Bay]] – Carsaig Pier and boathouses; Carsaig House (Erraig); telephone box next to the waterfall,<ref>Powell (1986) p. 475</ref> today a [[Historic Environment Scotland]] Category B listed building.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,LB50858 |title=Near Pier at Carsaig, Isle of Mull, K6 Telephone Kiosk |publisher=Historic Environment Scotland |accessdate=25 November 2024}}</ref>
** [[Moy Castle]] – Castle of Moy.<ref name=JM/>
** [[Duart Castle]] – Castle of Sorne.<ref name=JM>{{cite book |last1=Maxwell |first1=Jenna |title=A History and Guide to Scottish Castles |date=24 January 2023 |publisher=[[Pen and Sword]] |___location=Barnsley |isbn=978-1-3990-1614-8 |url=https://
** [[Torosay Castle]] – Achnacroish.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reeves |first1=Tony |title=The worldwide guide to movie locations |date=2001 |publisher=A Cappella |___location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-55652-432-5 |page=191 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldwideguideto00reev/page/191/mode/1up?q=torosay}}</ref>
* [[Lunga, Firth of Lorn#History|Pass of the Grey Dogs]] ({{Coord|56.202|-5.690|display=inline}}) – the whirlpool.<ref name=Powell480/>
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''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote:
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The great strength of this most entertaining film lies in its affectionate and sympathetic handling of the Highland setting: its great weakness lies in its story. The glimpses of Highland life, the dancing at the ''ceilidh'', the gossip of travellers in a bus, the enthusiasm of the bird enthusiast (played by Captain Knight) with his eagle, all this is admirably done; and the storm, which is the climax of the film, is realistic and gripping. The story, however, does not bear reflective analysis. ...If the fundamental framework had been sound this could have been a first-rate film; it is in any case a piece of first-rate entertainment.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1946 |title=I Know Where I'm Going! |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305807056 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=12 |issue=133 |pages=147 |id={{ProQuest|1305807056}} |url-access=subscription
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[[Raymond Chandler]] wrote in 1950, "I've never seen a picture which smelled of the wind and rain in quite this way nor one which so beautifully exploited the kind of scenery people actually live with, rather than the kind which is commercialised as a show place." —, ''Letters''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chandler |first1=Raymond |editor1-last=MacShane |editor1-first=Frank |editor2-last=Hiney |editor2-first=Tom |title=The Raymond Chandler Papers Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959 |date=2012 |url=https://
[[Martin Scorsese]] wrote in 1993, "I reached the point of thinking there were no more masterpieces to discover, until I saw ''I Know Where I'm Going!''"<ref name="IKWIG Revisited" />
In February 2013 the film critic [[Barry Norman]] included it among his 49 greatest films of all time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wyatt |first1=Daisy |title=Bafta special: Barry Norman's top 49 British films of all time |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/bafta-special-barry-norman-s-top-49-british-films-of-all-time-8481536.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=5 February 2013}}</ref>▼
In 2012 the film critic [[Molly Haskell]] included it among her 10 greatest films of all time in that year's ''Sight & Sound'' poll.<ref>{{cite web |title=Analysis: The Greatest Films of All Time 2012 |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/275 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818155444/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/275 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 August 2016 |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=20 January 2020}}</ref>
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In 2025 ''[[FilmInk]]'' called it "one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=FilmInk|access-date=22 June 2025|date=22 June 2025|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/the-films-of-lee-robinson-and-chips-rafferty-part-5-the-stowaway/|title=The films of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty Part 5: The Stowaway}}</ref>
==Radio adaptation==
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*[https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/dvd-video-review/i-know-where-im-going/ I Know Where I'm Going! Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221123922/https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/dvd-video-review/i-know-where-im-going/ |date=21 February 2020 }} from Noel Megahey at The Digital Fix
*[http://www.dvdclassik.com/Critiques/je_sais_ou_je_vais.htm Review] (in French) at DVD Classik (France)
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