
Splash(1984)
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.


“Lucky Mr. Peabody...Everybody thought he was DREAMING!”
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.

William Powell
Arthur Peabody

Ann Blyth
La sirène

Irene Hervey
Polly Peabody

Andrea King
Cathy Livingston

Clinton Sundberg
Mike Fitzgerald

Art Smith
Dr. Harvey

Hugh French
Major Hadley

Beatrice Roberts
Mother

Lumsden Hare
Colonnel Mandrake
Mary Field
Wee Shop Clerk
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid is a comedy, fantasy, romance film released in 1948 exploring themes of mermaid, told in flashback, underwater photography, swimming underwater, marital crisis, mid-life crisis. Directed by Irving Pichel, it stars William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey. 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.
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