Mississippi Mermaid
The bride came as advertised... with an unadvertised special.
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.
- Year: 1969
- Country: France, Italy
- Genre: Romance, Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Studio: Produzioni Associate Delphos, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés
- Keyword: 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
- Director: François Truffaut
- Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière, Marcel Berbert