'Miranda' (1948) – Ken Annakin.

A posh married doctor (Griffith Jones) goes on a bachelor holiday on the picturesque Cornish coast, and fatefully hooks up with beautiful flaxen-haired mermaid Glynis Johns, who becomes so enraptured by this spectacularly enchanting submarine siren, he promptly whisks her back to his large, well-appointed flat in London, under the spurious guise of her being his invalided patient, a curious arrangement his suspicious wife (Googie Withers) finds far less agreeable than her starry eyed hubby! My initial interest in 'Miranda' was the fact that it starred two of my favourites, Margaret Rutherford, and Googie Withers, but it soon became strikingly apparent that Ken Annakin's blissfully breezy, almost implausibly charming comedy was blessed with a surprisingly salty script, salmon deliciously refined acting, with a pearlescent performance by gorgeous Glynis Johns as the crystalline voiced, mesmerizingly man-obsessed mermaid whose ingenuous passion for life proved impossible to resist!

The good doctor Paul Martin and the marvellously mischievous Miranda make for an exquisitely cod couple, and this delectable sea nymph made quite the noticeable splash in London's somewhat staid high society! Her dazzling beauty, and singularly forward demeanour readily captured hearts, very soon engendering waves of giddy admiration that engulfed all of Miranda's many male admirers! Gifted director Ken Annakin's light, frequently frothy celluloid confection remains a generously joke-laden treasure chest of scintillating wit, robustly anchored by a weighty cast of exemplary actors, so you certainly won't be wasting your brine with this salty/sweet tail of multitudinously magnificent, majestically mirthsome mermaid mishaps! And there's very little trout in my mind that I shan't be the only fin of that miraculous movie Mermaid 'Miranda'.