Avant-garde filmmaker and Kenneth Anger associate Curtis Harrington turned his attention to feature-length genre films with this 1961 classic from American International. Prolific actor Dennis Hopper (The Last Movie) stars as sailor Johnny Drake, who becomes obsessed with the mystery surrounding a carnival's mermaid attraction (Linda Lawson from television's Adventures In Paradise and many others). With the late, great Luana Anders, who also appeared in Harrington's Games and a handful of films with pal Jack Nicholson, and Marjorie Cameron from Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
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