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Mad About Men

  • 1954
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
656
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Glynis Johns in Mad About Men (1954)
Buddy ComedyComedyFantasy

Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

  • Director
    • Ralph Thomas
  • Writer
    • Peter Blackmore
  • Stars
    • Glynis Johns
    • Donald Sinden
    • Anne Crawford
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    656
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    • Director
      • Ralph Thomas
    • Writer
      • Peter Blackmore
    • Stars
      • Glynis Johns
      • Donald Sinden
      • Anne Crawford
    • 17User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Glynis Johns
    Glynis Johns
    • Caroline Trewella…
    Donald Sinden
    Donald Sinden
    • Jeff Saunders
    Anne Crawford
    Anne Crawford
    • Barbara Davenport
    Margaret Rutherford
    Margaret Rutherford
    • Nurse Carey
    Dora Bryan
    Dora Bryan
    • Berengaria
    Nicholas Phipps
    Nicholas Phipps
    • Col. Barclay Sutton
    Peter Martyn
    • Ronald Baker
    Noel Purcell
    Noel Purcell
    • Percy
    Joan Hickson
    Joan Hickson
    • Mrs. Forster
    Judith Furse
    Judith Furse
    • Viola
    Irene Handl
    Irene Handl
    • Mme. Blanche
    David Hurst
    David Hurst
    • Signor Mantalini
    Martin Miller
    Martin Miller
    • Dr. Fergus
    Deryck Guyler
    Deryck Guyler
    • Editor
    Anthony Oliver
    • Pawnbroker
    Marianne Stone
    Marianne Stone
    • Waitress
    • (scenes deleted)
    Lawrence Ward
    • Alphonse
    Wendie Adams
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ralph Thomas
    • Writer
      • Peter Blackmore
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    9calvertfan

    Camping with a girl? What a waste of a tent!

    'Mad About Men' is every bit as good as 'Miranda', although it doesn't pick up the pace until at least a third in. Caroline Trewella has gone to stay at her Cornish cottage for a few days when she meets her distant cousin, Miranda. Miranda wants to go back on land, so Caroline agrees to let her take her place whilst she goes out cycling with a friend. And the first thing Miranda does is to decide that Caroline needs a better fiancee!

    The colour looks a bit garish on Glynis Johns but Anne Crawford and Donald Sinden look lovely. Dora Bryan is also hilarious as Miranda's annoying little companion, who upsets the applecart on every possible occasion. The basics are the same as in 'Miranda' although the ending is definitely a little neater. 9/10
    6barnesgene

    A Mermaid Story for the Whole Family

    For a movie about a mermaid, the special effects are quite basic. All to the better though, really, since it allows the writers to concentrate on their spiffy, silly dialog. The viewer is never made to feel too uncomfortable over the possibility that the mermaid will get caught in her disguise. Any such threatening moments would be pointlessly manipulative of the audience anyway, this being an obvious fantasy flick, so why not just have a good time, right? Where the movie fails to ignite is in the dated chick-flickian rather-fall-in-love-with-a-good-looking-guy drill. It's monochromatic and not terribly involving (so the ending's a bit ho-hum), but it does make way for good, direct, innocent -- and occasionally spicy -- remarks from the mermaid. Watch for great facial expressions from Margaret Rutherford, the nurse, and a good physical workout for the old gal as well!
    6CinemaSerf

    Mad About Men

    This is quite an enjoyable vehicle for a mischievous Glynis Johns, who doubles up as a gymnastics teacher ("Caroline") who is left a remote house on the Cornish coast, and a mermaid ("Miranda") who lives with her equally cheeky friend "Berengaria" (Dora Bryan) in a cave underneath. The two characters have a common ancestor and look identical, so when "Caroline" heads off on a cycling trip, her mermaid cousin takes her place - and immediately starts to charm just about every man in the village. Many of us who recall later performances from (Sir) Donald Sinden may forget just how handsome he was as he falls for her; as does "Col. Barclay Sutton" (Nicholas Phipps) whose fiancée "Barbara" (Anne Crawford) tires of the endless flirtations and sets about trying to put a spoke in her wheel. Margaret Rutherford is her usual, ebullient, self as the enthusiastically game nurse who is in on the whole thing from the start. It's amusingly suggestive at times, and the dialogue quite witty but the film is way too long, and once the joke has worn off it drags a bit. It is better, I felt, than the rather more rigid, staid original from 1948 however, and well worth a gander.
    6planktonrules

    An amiable follow-up to the mermaid film "Miranda"

    Miranda is a nice mermaid who speaks perfect English. She meets up with a human who is her exact double. Apparently a distant relative had "relations" with a mermaid and this supposedly accounts for them looking 100% the same (a plot element only seen in movies and "The Patty Duke Show"). This nice mermaid and her nice counterpart decide to let Miranda pose as the other lady for a fortnight--during which time Miranda chases after men with wild abandon.

    I am not a huge fan of the first mermaid film starring Ms. Johns (MIRANDA), though it was an amiable time-passer. Oddly, despite it being a very "small" film, a few people on IMDb gave it a score of 10, though I notice that the scores for this follow-up film, MAD ABOUT MEN, were not so inflated. This is really odd as both films are very similar and it's really a coin toss to decide which is the better picture. Interestingly enough, this sequel came 8 years after the original film. Also, while I have not seen it, apparently Ms. Johns made a brief cameo appearance as the mermaid in another film (HELTER SKELTER). So, overall, the film is charming and worth a look--just don't expect magic.
    5Doylenf

    Follow-up to "Miranda" is showcase for Glynis Johns...

    I never saw MIRANDA but this is a lively sequel to that film with GLYNIS JOHNS again playing the saucy mermaid with her usual charm.

    Glynis is a flirtatious mermaid who takes the place of a schoolteacher for a couple of weeks, determined to find a better husband for her than the stuffy fiancé she's engaged to. They resemble each other greatly because, as "Miranda" describes it, they're both descended from the mermaid side of the family.

    It's utter nonsense, played to the hilt by a cast intent on making it reasonably funny but only partly succeeding.

    MARGARET RUTHERFORD overplays the role of a dotty nurse who looks after the mermaid and is in her element in over-the-top fantasy farce. DONALD SINDEN is a wealthy man Miranda has her eyes on as a possible husband for the schoolteacher.

    It's filmed in garish looking color (unusual for a British film which usually featured muted color), but the charm begins to wear off fairly early as the plot gets sillier and sillier.

    Summing up: Mermaid comedies are not my cup of tea and this one is sillier than most, especially when the mermaid's inability to walk is compensated by some weak plot contrivances which has her being carried around by the men with her mermaid tail barely concealed under a thin blanket.

    Trivia note: Interesting to see JOAN HICKSON as the owner of a lodge, long before she became Jane Marple for British TV.

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    • Trivia
      Sequel to Miranda (1948), also written by Peter Blackmore, in which Glynis Johns played the seductive and flirtatious mermaid Miranda.
    • Goofs
      A train sets off from a Cornish station the engine has a Cornish Riviera head board on it's front and a name plate over the main wheels but when next seen it's a small engine with side tanks, no tender and a rake of smooth side carriages but when it pulls into a station a short while later the coaches are older with paneling.
    • Quotes

      Nurse Carey: Is he married?

      Percy: No - I reckon he's too wise.

      Nurse Carey: I don't know what you mean by that.

      Percy: Well he'd rather make several ladies happy than one miserable.

    • Connections
      Featured in MsMojo: Top 10 Greatest Mermaid Movies (2023)
    • Soundtracks
      I Can't Resist Men
      Written by Benjamin Frankel (as Ben Bernard)

      Sung by Glynis Johns

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    • Release date
      • June 14, 1955 (Denmark)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Дуріючи від чоловіків
    • Filming locations
      • Palace Pier Theatre, Palace Pier, Brighton, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK(Cornwall concert hall)
    • Production company
      • Group Film Productions Limited
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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