

Mississippi Mermaid(1969)
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.

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