This week’s mystery movie has been the 1945 Michael Powell – Emeric Pressberger film “I Know Where I’m Going!” Unfortunately, I cant do justice to the ingenious opening title sequence, but it should settle once and for all the recent argument (in case you missed it) that opening credits were merely boring lists until the arrival of Saul Bass.
The DVD has been issued by the Criterion Collection and is available from the usual sources.
TMP, writing in the New York Times (Aug. 20, 1947) said:
The Archers, which is a corporate way of saying Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, have scored another bullseye. Last week this English writing-directing team gave us the artistically exciting “Black Narcissus.” Yesterday they sent to the Sutton Cinema, in East Fifty-seventh Street, one of the most satisfying screen romances of many a season. “I Know Where I’m Going” is boy-meets-girl, but developed in an adult, literate style—a sort of romantic suspense drama which is as beautifully performed as it is beautifully written and directed.
For Monday, we have a mystery girl.
Alas, still unidentified.
For Tuesday, we have a chap on the phone.
Update: This is Finlay Currie.
Update: This is C.W.R. Knight. Sorry for the mixup.
Brain Trust roll call: Jenny M. (mystery movie).
And for Wednesday, we have this mystery chap.
Update: This is George Carney.
For Thursday, we have a mystery chap with an arresting gaze. Surely it’s the leading lady and the sound of the pipers playing.
Update: This is Roger Livesey.
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s mystery guests) and Jenny M. (Wednesday’s mystery guest).
And for Friday, our mystery leading lady.
Update: This is Wendy Hiller.
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and all mystery guests), Jenny M. (Wednesday’s mystery guest), Mary Mallory (mystery movie and Tuesday’s and Thursday’s mystery guests), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guest), Anne Papineau (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guest), Lee Ann, Megan and Thom (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guest) and Victor H. Brown (Thursday’s mystery guest).
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Monday: Jane Withers?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Movie – I Know Where I Am Going
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She resembles the horrid little child you lives in the condo below us!!
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That should be who, not you! Duh!
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Monday: Margaret O’Brien?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Rebecca and Leo G. Carroll.
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If this is George Coulouris, the glasses are a great mask of his evil eyes.
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Joan, age 5, in I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!;
Finlay Currie; George Carney.
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Is Monday’s mystery girl Marilyn Harris?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Looks like a kind of creepy “Captain January” redo.
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Interesting observation, but I don’t think so.
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George Carney
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Dry-voiced Roger Livesey.
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I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING and Roger Livesey today. Great film! Walter Hudd yesterday and Finlay Currie Tuesday.
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Sorry, part-time player this week…Tuesday’s guy on the phone looks a bit like tough guy Richard Cramer.
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It’s Robert Donat this a.m.
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Interesting guess. Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Roger Livesey.
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Roger Livesey on Thursday.
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I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING.
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“I Know Where I’m Going”
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Today’s guest is Roger Livesey in, I think, ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’, with C.W.R. Knight for Tuesday’s guest.
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Thursday it is Roger Livesey,
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Wendy Hiller today.
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As I suspected; a Powell Pressburger film: I know where I’m going. With wonderful Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey.
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Wendy Hiller.
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Wendy Hiller, early days
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I think Wendy Hiller Knows Where She’s Going, with an assist by Finlay Curie. But can that be Petula Clark thinking about going downtown?
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Wendy Hiller.
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Friday: Wendy Hiller?
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I Know Where I’m Going (1945)w/Roger Livesey, Wendy Hiller, Findley Currie, & Petula Clark
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Realize it’s a bit late, but the gentleman on the telephone isn’t iconic old Findley Currie. It’s C.W.R. Knight as Barnstable. I actually rewatched some wonderful “IKWIG” to confirm this. It’s a magical film.
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Sorry, I meant he’s not FINLAY Currie. Currie speaks Gaelic in the film and Knight is a falconer who speaks on the telephone near the waterfall.
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Thanks! I’ll take another look. 🙂
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