Mississippi Mermaid (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. 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