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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