Miranda

1948

1h 20m

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6.1/10

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Comedy

Fantasy

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A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.

Directors

Ken Annakin

Writers

Peter Blackmore(screenplay by)

Denis Waldock(writer by)

Stars

Glynis Johns

Googie Withers

Griffith Jones

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Top cast

Miranda Trewella

Clare Martin

Dr. Paul Martin

Nigel

Nurse Carey

Charles

Betty

Isobel

Manell

Secretary

Inn Landlord

Museum Attendant

Railway Carman

Cockle Vendor

Lift Boy (uncredited)

Howard Douglas

Fisherman (uncredited)

Joan Ingram

Primadonna (uncredited)

Tonie MacMillan

Nigel's Landlady (uncredited)

Directors

Ken Annakin

Writers

Peter Blackmore(screenplay by)

Denis Waldock(writer by)

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Griffiths Jones is ("Dr. Paul Martin") who leaves his wife to go on a Cornish fishing trip where he falls foul of mischievous mermaid "Miranda" (Glynis Johns) who holds him captive in her underwater grotto. Her condition for release is that he take her to London where, abetted by Margaret Rutherford as "Nurse Carey" she wreaks havoc, flirting with all the men she meets. It's a rather one-joke film that starts engagingly enough, but as the joke grows thin - and, frankly, preposterous, the performance of Johns starts to grate a little. Googie Withers is quite good as the doctor's somewhat sceptical wife, as is David Tomlinson as their rather hapless chauffeur but - like her tail - the story is just a bit thin and flails about a bit too much as it drifts from comedy to romantic melodrama

Geronimo196709 Jul, 2022