The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) on Netflix
Approved19661h 50mComedyRomance
Jennifer Nelson swims as a mermaid beneath her father's glass-bottom boat off Santa Catalina. Bruce Templeton hires her to write his biography while the Soviets seek his secret formula.
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- IMDb6.5/105,750 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
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Plot summary
On Santa Catalina Island, Jennifer Nelson helps her father Axel Nordstrom run his glass-bottom boat tours by swimming beneath the boat in a mermaid costume. A fishing hook snags the costume, and its owner, Bruce Templeton, reels in half of it. Bruce owns an aerospace company in Long Beach, where Jennifer works in public relations. He hires her to write his life story while his company finishes GISMO, a gravity control device the Air Force intends to launch. At his home she also meets Julius Pritter, an electronics technician, and Edgar Hill, a CIA agent assigned to keep the project secure.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Nautilus, the glass-bottom boat used in the film, sank in Catalina harbor in 2008, and it now sits drydocked in a private part of Catalina Island.
- The title song is a rewrite of "Soft as the Starlight" with completely different lyrics, and Doris Day had sung the original in full on her 1957 album Day by Night. It is heard twice in the film, over the opening credits and as source music sung by Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey and Fraser.
