- HD 1080
- Runtime: 123m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France, Italy
- Director: François Truffaut
- Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière
- 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
- Production_studio: Produzioni Associate Delphos, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés
- Slogan: The bride came as advertised... with an unadvertised special.
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- The Mississippi Mermaid is featured in the top rankings of 1969
- #18 in Top Romance Movies of 1969
- #56 in Top Drama Movies of 1969
- #14 in Top Crime Movies of 1969
- #9 in Top Thriller Movies of 1969
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.