Mississippi Mermaid
1969 · Movie · 123 min. · France
Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway.
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Bouquet · Nelly Borgeaud · Roland Thénot · Marcel Berbert
Soundtrack Antoine Duhamel
Screenplay François Truffaut · Cornell Woolrich
Cinematography Denys Clerval
Original title La Sirene du Mississipi
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