Romantic comedy about a girl who plans to marry for money and finds her ideas challenged.
A young woman wants to marry a man for his money, but ends up falling in love with a man she meets in a Scottish village.
Additional cast: Murdo Morrison (Kenny), Margot Fitzsimmons (Bridie), and Captain C.W.R. Knight, F.Z.S. (Colonel Barnstaple).
The print used for the Home Vision Cinema VHS version is from the Janus collection.
The Voyager laserdisc #CC1389L is part of the company's Criterion Collection. It features a new digital transfer taken from a 35mm preservation print by the British Film Institute from the original nitrate elements. It includes an audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie on the alternate soundtrack; production stills, behind-the-scenes footage, and home movies of director Michael Powell's Scottish expedition, all narrated by Thelma Schoonmaker Powell; the 1994 Mark Cousins documentary "I Know Where I'm Going Revisited"; a photo essay on the locations of the film by Nancy Franklin; and excerpts from Powell's 1937 feature "The Edge of the World" and 1978 documentary, "Return to the Edge of the World."
Copyright 1947 Universal Pictures Co., Inc.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer - RSDL
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English
Additional Release Material:
Additional Audio Material: Audio Essay - Film Historian Ian Christie
Bonus Footage: Home Movies of Michael Powell's Scottish Exhibition
Documentary: I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! REVISITED
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos:
1. Behind the Scenes Stills
2. Photo Essay
Clips:
1. THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
2. RETURN TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
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Review 1:
"...Full of native folk songs and dancing, it takes on added poignancy when you remember it's set in World War II..."
Source: USA Today
p.3D 12/28/1990
Review 2:
"...As charming as anything in [Powell and Pressburger's] oeuvre....A treat." -- Rating: A
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.90 12/02/1994