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...Little Mermaid. And of all the Sirens and Scyllas seen by all the storm-tossed mariners, she was the first and only daughter of her finny race to serve as Neptune's permanent, peaceful ambassador to the footed world. Inspired by the Andersen story, a sculptor gave her form. Her abode became a wave-washed rock outside Copenhagen's harbor; her sleek, demure figure personified the life-giving sea and sea-sustained Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark: Tears for a Mermaid | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

NIGHT TIDE. Man against myth is the theme of Writer-Director Curtis Harrington's promising first feature, an eerie tale of a young U.S. sailor who nearly succumbs to the siren song of a Venice, Calif., mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

NIGHT TIDE. The age-old legend of the mariner and the mermaid brought up to date by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington, whose offbeat first feature turns a Venice, Calif., amusement park into a mystical land of Edgar Allan Poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

NIGHT TIDE. The age-old legend of the mariner and the mermaid brought up to date by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington, whose offbeat first feature turns a Venice, Calif., amusement park into a mystical land of Edgar Allan Poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Night Tide. Amidst the clapboard and tinsel of the amusement park at Venice, Calif., a siren song lures a young sailor toward destruction. He meets a girl, Mora, whose dark eyes distill the rapture of the depths. "I am a mermaid," she tells him-perhaps referring to her job, which involves slipping into a scaly fishtail and then into a tank at a boardwalk sideshow. But Mora is unfathomably fey. She collects starfish and coral. Gulls fly into her arms. She is tormented by a mysterious Woman in Black who appears with jet veils murmuring about her like sea things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Poe with a Megaphone | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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