Editing I Know Where I'm Going! (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film was a hit at the box office and recovered its cost in the UK alone.<ref name=MacD249/>

===U.S. release===
The film was one of the first five movies from the Rank Organisation to receive a release in the U.S. under a new arrangement. The others were ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra (film)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]'', ''[[The Rake's Progress (film)|The Rake's Progress]]'', ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' and ''[[The Wicked Lady]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62872042 |title=D-DAY FOR BRITISH FILMS |newspaper=[[Townsville Daily Bulletin]] |volume=LXVII |location=Queensland, Australia |date=19 December 1945 |access-date=29 October 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> U.S. box office take was $1.2 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety160-1945-11/page/n138/mode/1up?q=%22pic+cost%22|accessdate=18 March 2023|magazine=Variety|title=London West End Has Big Pix Sked|page=19|date=21 November 1945}}</ref>

===Critical reviews===
Contemporary reviews were positive:

''[[The Times]]'' wrote: "The cast makes the best possible use of some natural, unforced dialogue, and there is some glorious outdoor photography."<ref>{{cite news |last1=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title=Entertainments I Know Where I'm Going |work=[[The Times]] |issue=50299 |date=14 November 1945 |location=London|page=6}}</ref>

''[[The Guardian]]'': "[It] has interest and integrity.  It deserves to have successors." —, 16 November 1945

''[[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.&nbsp;...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 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>
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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://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Raymond_Chandler_Papers/imQoKJKgYoQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=raymond+chandler+%22I+Know+where+I%27m+going%22&pg=PT123&printsec=frontcover |location=Letter to James Sandoe 7 December 1950|publisher=[[Grove Atlantic]]|isbn= 9780802194336}}</ref>

[[Martin Scorsese]] wrote, "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" />

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>