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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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    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.
    8andyrobert

    Miranda Was Better

    Quite a nice little film, possibly inspired by the many mermaid fairy tales of old.

    Glynis Johns always looked lovely in no matter what film she was in; and Dora Bryan made ample use of her comic talents as Glynis Johns's dotty mermaid companion.

    Anne Crawford was also turned in good a performance as Glynis Johns's jealous adversary - it is a pity that such a talented actress died so young. However, I must say that I much better enjoyed its prequel, "Miranda", made 6 years earlier in 1948.

    8 out of 10
    10mcannady1

    Mad About Men

    I just wanted to share my feelings about this film I had seen in the 60's growing up with my big sister. Were we ever enchanted by the mermaid story! I had and have hoped to go to Cornwall some day to see the locales. Since that time it has been fun seeing other people from this film in others. I discovered the talented Anne Crawford who was great in serious roles as well. Sadly, she passed away all too soon from Leukemia (before we had ever seen the film).

    The story is delightful with the beautiful Miss Johns as the wistful mermaid wanting to meet men and switching places with her lookalike who has inherited a lodging house in Cornwall with a cave underneath.

    The prim schoolteacher eventually meets a handsome man Miranda has chosen for her. Of course there is competition along the way, in the form of Anne Crawford's suitor who would turn aside from his engagement to be with Miranda. And of course the dowdy fiancée of Caroline is soon dispensed with.

    A lovely and delightful story! Margaret Rutherford is outstanding as the eccentric Nurse Carey tending to her eccentric charge, Miranda. And a delightful whimsical moment - We even have Margaret's husband in a comedic scene as the Vicar who wants Nurse Carey to hang out with the sailors and smoke a pipe. This she endeavors to do with little success.

    I can't even mention this wonderful film in the same breath as Splash which I might have liked better had it not been overdone sexual overtones. But I did like the story line of that film too. It's just that the actions and some dialogue were too blatant. Some of Tom Hanks's lines (and I do like Tom Hanks) are overdone.

    Not to create a spoiler here - The original film to Mad About Men entitled Miranda is more racy, as we are to conclude that Miranda has had a child by a mortal man. But this is done with class and aplomb when we see the little "Merman" at the end with his mother looking wistfully toward the cave where she first met a married man.

    In conclusion, to me Glynis gets the award as the most fetching and beautiful mermaid of all time - some 40 years after first seeing the film. My big sister and I wanted to grow up to look and be just like Glynis.

    New info. as of May of 2016 - I recently obtained a copy of the film that is not garish. I know what the reviewer was saying and had a copy where Miranda's hair looked grayish blonde and the darker colors garish. I recall seeing the film in the 60's as a child on TV and it looked great. My new copy is just about as perfect as you can get.
    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
    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.

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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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