edwagreen Dreadful film about a doctor who goes fishing and winds up catching a mermaid when he is thrown overboard. She traps him into bringing her back with him.Glynis Johns, in the title role, is really a silly individual with a tail hanging out.Margaret Rutherford is the nurse who is supposed to be so eccentric but we see no eccentricity here. In fact, Miss Rutherford was not allowed to use her true comedic gifts.Nice to see David Tomlinson in the film. He would get together with Johns in the far superior "Mary Poppins," 16 years later.Miranda causes mischief in that two guys, a neighbor's fiancée and chauffeur (Tomlinson) fall for her.Ask any mermaid you happen to see, what's the best tuna, Chicken of the Sea! As for this film, forget it.

MartinHafer I noticed one reviewer gave this film a 10. Hmmm,...so apparently this film is as good as GONE WITH THE WIND, BEN HUR or GIGI?! Sorry, but while this is a good film, that's really about all there is to it. In many ways the film reminded me of MR. PEABODY AND THE MERMAID with a very odd twist. Instead of a man catching a mermaid and trying to keep it a secret, a man hooks onto a mermaid and agrees to bring her back home to meet the family and see London! All this is possible because unlike Mr. Peabody's mermaid, this one is perfectly coiffed and has perfect British diction and deportment. How, exactly, she learned such lovely and lilting English is an enigma. The mermaid (Glynis Johns) said that she learned English and customs from Vogue magazine, though how this help with her sterling pronunciation is a mystery! Well, if you ignore all this and just turn off your brain, the film is a delightful thing to watch. Ms. Johns is quite alluring in the title role and all the men who meet her are captivated by her...and they DO NOT realize she is in fact a mermaid! It's all cute and silly fun and a film that is improved by good acting throughout. But a 10? Nah,...I don't think so.By the way, if you liked this film, see MAD ABOUT MEN--a sequel to this film that also stars Ms. Johns.

bkoganbing If it weren't for the fact that the two films came out around the same time in different countries, I'd say the other either copied the British Miranda or the USA's Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid. Both William Powell and Griffith Jones go fishing and get themselves a fetching young mermaid for their troubles.Ann Blyth's Lenore in Mr. Peabody is a silent young lady, but that's definitely not true of Glynis Johns in the title role of Miranda. She not only talks, but is rather well read on human kind. Of course one does not learn everything from books.especially some of the interspecies facts of life.Because it's a man that Miranda is seeking. The mermen of the oceans seem to be just not her type. And though Griffith Jones is married he is taken with her. Being a doctor Jones concocts a wild cover story involving her being a paraplegic patient who has come to live with him and wife Googie Withers. He has dresses made an extra foot long to cover her tail and has her in a wheelchair for the most part. And she's on an exclusively fish diet. Unusual doctor's orders to say the least.Miranda is a nice little fantasy and Glynis Johns practically glows in the title role. Besides Jones and Withers other performances of note are David Tomlinson as their butler and the irrepressible Margaret Rutherford as the practical nurse that is engaged. Hopefully it will come out on DVD/VHS and soon.

kafte This is a one-of-a-kind fantasy movie that beautifully showcased such major talents as Glynis Johns and Margaret Rutherford. I can hardly wait til this movie is made available for sale (if the film is still in good shape, why hasn't it been available yet?). In my view, there simply isn't enough information, or good movies, on the subject of mermaids, and hopefully this could be rectified by an updated version of this movie..I haven't casted it in my mind yet, but there are a handful of worthies that come to mind for Miranda. However, it will be a more difficult task to find someone even close to our beloved Margaret Rutherford.