Nunnally Johnson, the man who wrote the action-packed script for THE DIRTY DOZEN (with Lukas Heller), is the producer-writer of this film, a motion picture that could not be more different in content and intent from the Heller collaboration. Based on a novel by Guy and Constance Jones,
this is the story of a man, Powell, turning 50. He is suffering from a middle-age crisis and is sent by his doctor, Smith, to a holiday in the Caribbean where he is told to rest up until the crisis clears. While out fishing for his dinner, the proper Bostonian hooks something a little larger than
his pole can handle--Blyth, a voluptuous mermaid. Powell takes her back to his beach cot...
Released:
1948
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins