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)
Storyline
Did you know
- 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)
Featured review
Mad About Men
This is quite an enjoyable vehicle for a mischievous Glynis Johns, who doubles up as a gymnastics teacher ("Caroline") who is left a remote house on the Cornish coast, and a mermaid ("Miranda") who lives with her equally cheeky friend "Berengaria" (Dora Bryan) in a cave underneath. The two characters have a common ancestor and look identical, so when "Caroline" heads off on a cycling trip, her mermaid cousin takes her place - and immediately starts to charm just about every man in the village. Many of us who recall later performances from (Sir) Donald Sinden may forget just how handsome he was as he falls for her; as does "Col. Barclay Sutton" (Nicholas Phipps) whose fiancée "Barbara" (Anne Crawford) tires of the endless flirtations and sets about trying to put a spoke in her wheel. Margaret Rutherford is her usual, ebullient, self as the enthusiastically game nurse who is in on the whole thing from the start. It's amusingly suggestive at times, and the dialogue quite witty but the film is way too long, and once the joke has worn off it drags a bit. It is better, I felt, than the rather more rigid, staid original from 1948 however, and well worth a gander.
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- Nov 20, 2022
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Дуріючи від чоловіків
- Filming locations
- Palace Pier Theatre, Palace Pier, Brighton, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK(Cornwall concert hall)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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