I Know Where I'm Going
Outcast of the Islands
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I Know Where I'm Going
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
With Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney.
UK, 1945, 35mm, black & white, 92 min.
Print source: HFA
Wendy Hiller stars as an opportunistic young woman who travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a wealthy industrialist. En route to the remote island, she is stranded in a Scottish village by bad weather and distracted by the advances of a naval officer (Livesey) who seems intent on disrupting her best laid plains. Powell and Pressburger pay tribute to the beauty of the British landscape with this exquisitely photographed romantic comedy.
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Outcast of the Islands
Directed by Carol Reed.
With Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller.
UK, 1952, 35mm, black & white, 102 min.
Print source: HFA
Joseph Conrad's writing has never been easily translated to the screen. In the wake of his greatest triumph, The Third Man, Carol Reed made a bold, if flawed, effort to interpret Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands. Set on a remote Malaysian island (although filmed in Sri Lanka), the film stars Trevor Howard as a morally degenerate British expatriate who hides from his past indiscretions and betrays those closest to him, including Lingard (Richardson), a ship's captain who raised him since boyhood. Wendy Hiller returned to the screen after a self-imposed seven-year absence as Mrs. Almayer, the preserver of British tradition and colonialist etiquette.
Part of film series
Screenings from this program
Ballad of a Soldier / The Forty-First
Nightfall / Great Day in the Morning
Verboten! / Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name / The Jokers
Hearts of the World / True Heart Susie
Anna Christie / The Long Voyage Home
Suddenly Last Summer / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Quiet Days in Clichy / Henry and June
The Freshman / The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Sheep Has Five Legs / The Law is the Law
Hobson's Choice / Sidewalks of London
I Know Where I'm Going / Outcast of the Islands
An Inspector Calls / The Belles of St. Trinian's
Mother Joan of the Angels / Thérèse
Dawn of the Dead / Strange Behavior
