This is a British mermaid comedy. Vacationing doctor Griffith Jones falls into the ocean while fishing near Cornwall, he is rescued by beautiful mermaid Glynis Johns. Miranda the mermaid, who knows of the world chiefly through magazines pilfired from ships, gives the doc two options, keep her company in the air pockets of an underwater cave, or take her to London on a three week vacation. The doctor of course choses the latter, passing Miranda off as an invalid patient. Comic complications ensue keeping Miranda's mermaidness a secret, while she charms multiple men with her beauty and straight forward manner. Likable. The film has a transgressive coda that you wouldn't get from a production code bound American production of the time; Miranda's is successful in her true purpose in the city, landing a human baby daddy as mermen are ugly. ***
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