I Know Where I'm Going 1945  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, Petula Clark, John Laurie, Walter Hudd, Catherine Lacey, Valentine Dyall, Jean Cadell
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is determined to marry her fiance, a wealthy industrialist, when she embarks on her trip to the Scottish Hebrides. However, along the way she falls in love with Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey) and decides on marriage for love rather than for money. A Scottish delight.
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Pygmalion 1938  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Scott Sunderland, Marie Lohr, David Tree, Jean Cadell, Everley Gregg, Anthony Quayle, Irene Browne, Leueen MacGrath, Esme Percy, Iris Hoey, Patrick Macnee, Leo Genn
While nominated for five Academy Awards–including Best Actor (Lesley Howard), Actress (Wendy Hiller), and Picture–this film won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. George Bernard Shaw was the author of this classic story about the Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle (Hiller), and her mentor, Professor Henry Higgins (Howard), who bets that he can fool society and pass Eliza off as a "Lady." Later remade as the top musical "My Fair Lady."
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Whisky Galore! 1949  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Tight Little Island
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Wylie Watson, Jean Cadell, Morland Graham, Duncan Macrae
After a shipwreck off the Scottish island of Todday, the cargo of thousands of cases of whisky is carried off by the natives who have their work cut out for themselves in keeping their cache hidden from the customs agent (Basil Radford).
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| 1. I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
2. Love from a Stranger (1937)
3. Pygmalion (1938)
4. Whisky Galore! (1949)
aka: Tight Little Island
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