MIRANDA
(Rank-Gainsborough) MIRANDA was a mermaid who lived in a reasonably well-appointed cave off the Cornish coast. She seems to have thrived on a diet of raw fish and saltwater, her blood flowed: at a healthy ninety degrees below normal, and she should have been perfectly happy acombing of her yellow hair. But like the whale that wanted to sing at the Met., Miranda was ambitious to visit London and sing at Covent Garden (her cave’s acoustics weren’t all they might have been). How she manages to get to London, and to Covent Garden, heavily disguised as the crippled patient of a handsome young doctor is the theme of the film, and a rather heavily oversexed theme I thought it.. There is one interlude of good honest comedywhere Miranda has an altercation with a sea lion at the Zoo-but in general the wit is poised perilously on the knuckle, and one or two lines are certainly below the belt. Maybe I was not in the mood for this kind of fantasy, but I would have traded the whole show for a pair of sealskin trousers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 530, 19 August 1949, Page 19
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185MIRANDA New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 530, 19 August 1949, Page 19
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