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While on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.While on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.While on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.
Frederick Clarke
- Basil
- (as Fred Clark)
Robert Hyatt
- Boy
- (as Bobby Hyatt)
Ivan Browning
- Sidney
- (as Ivan H. Browning)
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- TriviaIn an article in "Look" magazine that came out at the time the film was released, Ann Blyth said that the hardest part of making the movie was trying to learn to swim whilst wearing the mermaid tail. She said that she practiced for more than a week before she felt comfortable with not being able to kick her legs to help her swim.
- GoofsIn the underwater fight scene, one shot shows that the fishtail costume had clearly separated from Lenore's back.
- Quotes
Mike Fitzgerald: Mr Peabody is an American freak. He's just been leering at his own wife.
Cathy Livingston: How charming! You must be a dream of a husband.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Mermaids in Movies and TV (2015)
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What You Can't Get at the Pet Store
That scene in the women's wear shop is a hilarious gem of scripting and acting. The relentless saleslady (Field) won't give poor addled Peabody (Powell) a break as he tries oh-so-tactfully to buy half of a swim suit for his uncovered half-woman half- fish (Blythe). Note how he doesn't even mention the pertinent word 'brassiere', a sign, I suppose, of Code-enforced times.
Powell's superb in this whimsical fantasy of replacing your ordinary pet goldfish with a lovely pet mermaid who can trill a siren's song. Trouble is Peabody's got an edgy wife (Hervey) who keeps nosing in at the wrong time, plus an amorous female acquaintance (King) who can't seem to keep her dress on. Naturally, all this produces a series of amusing situations, made more so by the expert cast, including Blythe who only needs to look silently alluring.
My one complaint is the undersea climax. It looks like the screenplay wanted it both ways, happiness with both the mermaid and the wife. But the underwater climax makes no sense and gets only a half-hearted explanation (an air pocket) as if writer Johnson is flummoxed too (maybe by the demands of a meddlesome producer).
Nonetheless, the movie remains an amusing slice of fantasy served up in Powell's inimitable style.
Powell's superb in this whimsical fantasy of replacing your ordinary pet goldfish with a lovely pet mermaid who can trill a siren's song. Trouble is Peabody's got an edgy wife (Hervey) who keeps nosing in at the wrong time, plus an amorous female acquaintance (King) who can't seem to keep her dress on. Naturally, all this produces a series of amusing situations, made more so by the expert cast, including Blythe who only needs to look silently alluring.
My one complaint is the undersea climax. It looks like the screenplay wanted it both ways, happiness with both the mermaid and the wife. But the underwater climax makes no sense and gets only a half-hearted explanation (an air pocket) as if writer Johnson is flummoxed too (maybe by the demands of a meddlesome producer).
Nonetheless, the movie remains an amusing slice of fantasy served up in Powell's inimitable style.
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- dougdoepke
- Sep 11, 2011
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- Also known as
- Deniz Kızının Aşkı
- Filming locations
- Weeki Wachee Springs - 6131 Commercial Way, Weeki Wachee, Florida, USA(underwater scenes photographed at Weekiwachee Spring, Florida)
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) officially released in India in English?
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