Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Alex da Silva Wendy Hiller (Joan) tells her father that she knows where she is going as she sets off on a journey by train to the Scottish Isle of Kiloran where she is to marry a wealthy businessman for his money. However, she can't make it to the island due to stormy weather so stays at a neighbouring island until the storm has passed and she can continue her journey. It is here that she meets Roger Livesey (Torquil) and other island characters. Love is in the air with Livesey.The film keeps the audience watching as it has a different setting, a good stormy atmosphere and we wait for the inevitable attempt to cross to the island despite the dangers, especially the Corryvreckan whirlpool. However, there is no-one in the cast to root for as they are all unlike-able characters. Livesey is alright but he's a bit of a slimeball, so I can't relate to him. Hiller is up her bottom and thoroughly selfish and calls her father "darling" which is totally unacceptable. Other characters have awful accents which grates on the ears.The story moves forward slowly and is never really interesting until they attempt a crossing. Can the whirlpool get them? Come on, whirlpool…..!

Prismark10 From the opening segment from this less known Powell & Pressburger production we feel that you are going to get their insightful but quirky and offbeat film. However I found this to be a slight effort and not very romantic or stirring.Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) since childhood knew what she wanted out of life. She is on her way to the isle of Kiloran in the Hebrides from Manchester to marry a wealthy and elderly industrialist. A marriage of convenience for her.Stranded by bad weather on the Isle of Mull, she meets naval officer, Torquil and is taken by him. She also later finds out that he is the Laird of Kiloran and her fiancé is actually leasing the island from him.Realising that she is falling for Torquil she desperately wants to make it to Kiloran and bribes a young sailor to take her there in heavy storm and Torquil follows and saves the boat from going sucked in a whirlpool. Both discern that they really were meant to be with each other.The film has a picture pretty Highland setting as you see people getting on with island life during the war. They might be poor but they are happy.The problem is Joan has not lost much by trading down from a rich old industrialist to a younger Laird who is more appealing to the heart. She pursuits her aims by selfish means even it results in a young sailor to potentially lose his life. This is not a person to root for in a romantic film, a heroine that appears to be cold and we are unsure that she has seen the errors of her ways.I believe that the film was written quickly and some of the sub- plots such as that of the eagle does look like filler.

mark.waltz Wendy Hiller plays a character who is swirling around in her own whirlpool, who, like Molly Brown, is determined not to let anybody pull her down. She's engaged to marry a Scottish nobleman, but when she shows up in the sea-side village to catch a boat to the island where this unseen character lives, she must face some facts about herself when blowing gales (gusty sea winds) prevent her from getting to that island which spookily looms way out in the middle of the sea. She falls in love with Roger Livesey, a resident of the village she is stuck in, but his brooding nature (like the Moorish Heathcliff of "Wuthering Heights") haunts both of them. Determined not to betray her promise, she makes an attempt to get to the island but a force of nature greater than themselves threatens to take them both down when he tries to take her to the island himself.This moody darkly filmed atmospheric drama with slight comic overtones is a testament to the creative visions of the production team who take a rather ordinary story and make it unique. Hiller is an interesting actress in the cannon of cinematic history in their fact that in America, her somewhat plain appearance could never have made her a star, but she was a favorite of British filmmakers. Her plucky heroine is possessed with inner beauty that makes her seem much more physically attractive than she actually is and as an actress, she is magic. Many stage performers of less than movie goddess like appearance became stars in the theater but character actresses on screen. Actresses like Hiller were appreciated by serious film viewers because they truly looked "real" and represented who the world really was dominated by.

bobsgrock Taking a side trip to the outer limits of the United Kingdom island, the Archers production team (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) provides a wonderfully sweet and gentle story that takes place in a most remote area with very personable and identifiable people who are just the antidote for a sophisticated, headstrong and forthright woman headed to a local island to marry a rich businessman.This is a story arc that today is as clichéd as possible, but despite its rapid aging, Powell and Pressburger's film remains timeless today mostly because of how much else they include in the story. There is wonderful black and white cinematography with gorgeous landscapes shimmering in the pristine photography. The acting is very fine with Wendy Hiller providing many instances requiring her own comeuppance and Roger Livesy being the excellent foil for such a character. These two have very good chemistry together and allow us to enjoy not just their performances but also the rest of the film as they provide for a relaxed atmosphere.Overall, this is not one of the very best Powell and Pressburger products, but it does provide for some nice moments and a tender love story with passions and emotions punctuated by the roaring sea and rocky coastline. A solid, splendid British film.