The read
It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
25 audience votes
Key crew
- Irving PichelDirector
- Nunnally JohnsonScreenplay
- Robert Emmett DolanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- William PowellArthur Peabody
- Ann BlythLa sirène
- Irene HerveyPolly Peabody
- Andrea KingCathy Livingston
- Clinton SundbergMike Fitzgerald
- Art SmithDr. Harvey
- Hugh FrenchMajor Hadley
- Beatrice RobertsMother
- Lumsden HareColonnel Mandrake
- Mary FieldWee Shop Clerk
- Cynthia CorleyNurse
- Frederick ClarkeBasil
Stills
Themes
mermaidtold in flashbackunderwater photographyswimming underwatermarital crisismid-life crisis