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Mull phone box seen in classic romance film saved from removal

I Know Where I’m Going! was directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who helmed a string of other classic films including The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and A Matter of Life and Death.

It was filmed in Mull and and at studios in Buckinghamshire in 1944 and 1945, while World War Two was still being fought, and is often praised as one of the duo’s best films.

Martin Scorsese is a huge fan of Powell and Pressburger, and I Know Where I’m Going! has also been praised by the likes of Tilda Swinton and Scottish director Bill Forsyth.

It centres on an Englishwoman played by Wendy Hiller, who is travelling to the fictional Scottish island of Kiloran to marry a rich businessman.

However she is stranded on Mull during a storm and falls in love with Roger Livesey’s Royal Navy officer, who is home on leave.

The phone box being next to a waterfall is played for laughs at one point, with Livesey’s character frustrated that he cannot hear anything due to the nearby water.


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