The other day TCM screened the delightful (if minor) fantasy Miranda. There is a small collection of mermaid films (that same year saw the film Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid) and I was wondering if there ever was an article on theses films?
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Some titles include :
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (194
Mad About Men (1954, a sequel to Miranda)
Night Tide (1961)
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Splash (1984)
Magic Island (1995)
Aquamarine (2006)
For fans of subtext there is often a scene in which the mermaid coyly asks one of the female characters if she would like to see her tail.
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Plot Synopsis (from http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/gains/filmography/1948/002.html)
Ken Annakins light-hearted fishy fantasy based on the play by Peter Blackmore. Starring Glynis Johns as the eponymous eye-catching mermaid, it's never exactly funny but the screenplay is certainly enchanting. The film was a huge success and fashioned a sequel; Mad About Men (1954).
While on a fishing holiday to Cornwall, Harley Street specialist Dr. Paul Marton (Griffith Jones) is rescued from a watery grave by a rather unusual creature - a mermaid named Miranda (Glynis Johns). Excited by her catch, Miranda threatens to keep him in her cave unless he takes her to London for a holiday, reluctantly Marton agrees and takes her home under the guise of a wheelchair-bound patient. Once in the city, Miranda proceeds to captivate every young man around her, but the eccentric local Nurse Cary (Margaret Rutherford) and Martons jealous wife Clare (Googie Withers) begin to wonder about their glamorous guest's predilection for raw seafood sandwiches and saltwater cocktails. Soon Miranda has a string of lovesick suitors competing for her attention, but she quickly becomes homesick for the sea, returning to care for her new baby.
The young and lovely Glynis Johns as the mermaid Miranda.
Some titles include :
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (194
Mad About Men (1954, a sequel to Miranda)
Night Tide (1961)
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Splash (1984)
Magic Island (1995)
Aquamarine (2006)
For fans of subtext there is often a scene in which the mermaid coyly asks one of the female characters if she would like to see her tail.
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