Mr. Peabody und die Meerjungfrau (1948)

Mr. Peabody und die Meerjungfrau: Directed by Irving Pichel. With William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Andrea King. While on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.

“This little-known film is a delightfully whimsical fable about male menopause, although the term didnu0026#39;t exist when it was made. William Powell, unwilling to face the encroachment of old age, receives the gift of a visitation from an altogether fetching mermaid, who sparks the diminishing flames of his youthful ardor. Powell is simply wonderful in the role, as he is in anything, as Maltin so rightly observes. This is a charming, touching, and, in the end, poignant tale.”