Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
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Marianne Stone
- Waitress
- (scenes deleted)
Wendie Adams
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSequel to Miranda (1948), also written by Peter Blackmore, in which Glynis Johns played the seductive and flirtatious mermaid Miranda.
- GoofsA train sets off from a Cornish station the engine has a Cornish Riviera head board on it's front and a name plate over the main wheels but when next seen it's a small engine with side tanks, no tender and a rake of smooth side carriages but when it pulls into a station a short while later the coaches are older with paneling.
- Quotes
Nurse Carey: Is he married?
Percy: No - I reckon he's too wise.
Nurse Carey: I don't know what you mean by that.
Percy: Well he'd rather make several ladies happy than one miserable.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MsMojo: Top 10 Greatest Mermaid Movies (2023)
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An amiable follow-up to the mermaid film "Miranda"
Miranda is a nice mermaid who speaks perfect English. She meets up with a human who is her exact double. Apparently a distant relative had "relations" with a mermaid and this supposedly accounts for them looking 100% the same (a plot element only seen in movies and "The Patty Duke Show"). This nice mermaid and her nice counterpart decide to let Miranda pose as the other lady for a fortnight--during which time Miranda chases after men with wild abandon.
I am not a huge fan of the first mermaid film starring Ms. Johns (MIRANDA), though it was an amiable time-passer. Oddly, despite it being a very "small" film, a few people on IMDb gave it a score of 10, though I notice that the scores for this follow-up film, MAD ABOUT MEN, were not so inflated. This is really odd as both films are very similar and it's really a coin toss to decide which is the better picture. Interestingly enough, this sequel came 8 years after the original film. Also, while I have not seen it, apparently Ms. Johns made a brief cameo appearance as the mermaid in another film (HELTER SKELTER). So, overall, the film is charming and worth a look--just don't expect magic.
I am not a huge fan of the first mermaid film starring Ms. Johns (MIRANDA), though it was an amiable time-passer. Oddly, despite it being a very "small" film, a few people on IMDb gave it a score of 10, though I notice that the scores for this follow-up film, MAD ABOUT MEN, were not so inflated. This is really odd as both films are very similar and it's really a coin toss to decide which is the better picture. Interestingly enough, this sequel came 8 years after the original film. Also, while I have not seen it, apparently Ms. Johns made a brief cameo appearance as the mermaid in another film (HELTER SKELTER). So, overall, the film is charming and worth a look--just don't expect magic.
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- planktonrules
- May 23, 2007
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- Дуріючи від чоловіків
- Filming locations
- Palace Pier Theatre, Palace Pier, Brighton, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK(Cornwall concert hall)
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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