cult film freak: THE SNORKEL

Written by James M. Tate / 7/06/2010 / No comments / british film noir/melodrama , british new wave , fifties , import , suspense

THE SNORKEL

7/06/2010 | No comment

title: THE SNORKEL

year: 1958

cast: Mandy Miller, Peter Van Eyck, William Franklyn, Betta St. John

rating: *1/2

This could have been a terrific comedy. A man wearing a big snorkel sits in an airtight basement while his wife suffocates on deadly gases above. Doesn't sound very funny, but it is... unintentionally. The woman's pre-teen daughter is on to this guy, who's just too perfect... and he's a conceited jerk. A perfectly conceited jerk covering up a "perfect murder" in a B&W British melodrama (somehow considered Noir) as suspenseful as deep-sea-diving in a swimming pool... in the shallow end.

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