Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

06/18/1969 (FR) • 2h 3m

Romance, Drama, Crime, Thriller

The bride came as advertised... with an unadvertised special.

Overview

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.


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Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

$1,600,000.00

Revenue

$7,356,000.00

Keywords

exotic island

love of one's life

marriage

plantation

lonely hearts ad

femme fatale

beautiful woman

mail order bride

french noir

personal ad

identity swap

crime of passion

correspondences

on the lam

con artist woman

bank account drained

plantation owner

fugitive lovers

hitchcockian

tobacco plantation

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