Best Fantasy Movies of 1948

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.

Bugs Bunny finds and rubs Aladdin's lamp and decides to follow the genie to Baghdad, where they battle Mad Man Hassan.

Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.

The rare original version of the classic underdog holiday story by ace animator Max Fleischer.

The god Colima tries to win the love of a beautiful young native, who won't betray the man she loves.

A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.

Animal puppets seek out Santa to find out why he doesn't deliver presents to them.

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.