Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

bkoganbing This Hammer film opens with a murder. We see Peter Van Eyck in a carefully planned murder asphyxiate his wife with poison gas which he avoids. He's constructed a trap door beneath the floor of the room where he can breath through a snorkel. The police who if they searched the room a bit more thoroughly should have found his trap door hideaway. But the film is set in Spain where well to do British have summer homes. And the Spanish police as personified by Gregoire Aslan are lazy. Wouldn't catch Scotland Yard avoiding the obvious.When his wife's daughter is brought in by her friend Betta St.John, Mandy Moore immediately accuses her stepfather Van Eyck of murder. Not only that of the murder of her real father. She's in obvious fear and we know she ought to be. But try and convince someone else most of all the cops.Van Eyck tries many times to murder her, but no one sees him doing it. In the end he's caught in the device of his own making. Clever I thought.But in what was obviously a tacked on ending Moore tells Aslan where to find Van Eyck. It truly ruined what was a clever idea for a justly earned revenge.

AaronCapenBanner Guy Green directed this mystery/suspense tale that stars Mandy Miller as Candy Brown, a young woman living in Italy at her stepfather's villa, whom she suspects of murdering her mother and father in an effort to inherit the family wealth, but she doesn't know how, and can't convince either her other relatives or the authorities. Of course, she is right, as the stepfather(Paul Decker, played by Peter van Eyck) has built a trap door in the bedroom where he can conceal himself, and uses a snorkel and a series of tubes to breathe in air. He needed this because he killed her with gas, and is now planning on doing away with Candy. Clever film builds interest in its characters and premise(with an unknown cast) that lead to a most effective, and ironic twist ending.

lazarillo This is an early British Hammer film, but it was filmed in Italy and co-scripted by future Italian director Antonio Marghareti, so it also in some ways anticipates the later Italian giallo thrillers, mostly in its enjoyably absurd plot. In the creepy opening scene a man (Peter Van Eck) puts on a scuba mask (it's technically not a "snorkel") and hides under the floor boards in order to gas his sleeping wife from inside her locked room. The police naturally think its suicide, but the murdered woman's teen daughter (Mandy Miller) comes home from school and immediately suspects the truth--naturally since she earlier witnessed her step-father drowning her father. Everyone thinks she's crazy, of course, (even after he bumps off her little dog, "Toto", too). Her governess (Betta St. John )meanwhile is torn between her loyalty her apparently delusional charge and her attraction to the suave, seemingly distraught widower.Now if this were a giallo there would be many more, no doubt very bloody, murders, the couple would graphically consummate their relationship, and even little Mandy would probably get in on the erotic and/or violent action somehow (i.e. check out the later giallo "Smile Before Death" which has a very similar plot, but with all these elements added in). But don't expect anything like that here. Still, this is very entertaining and has some ironic and effective twists at the end (the very last scene, however, is a terrible cop-out, no doubt tacked on to ameliorate the douchebags, I mean censors). The acting is indeed very good, especially that of Van Eyck and Miller (I hope this isn't the same Mandy Miller who later appeared in David Sullivan's horrible "Emmanuelle in Soho", but that seems pretty unlikely). You definitely want to check this one out.

sol1218 ****SPOILER ALERT**** "The Snorkel", filmed in black and white, is one of the most underrated and least seen films to come out of Hammer Pictures in the late 1950's when the studio was riding high with remakes-in blood dripping color- of both Frankenstein and Dracula horror movies.Paul Decker, Peter Van Eyck, is seen at the beginning of the movie dressed up in a skin diving outfit as his unconscious wife Madge is out cold, from a strong sedative he slipped into her glass of milk, on the sofa. Your at first puzzled at what Paul is up to, is he planning to go skin diving in bathtub?, but it soon becomes very evident what his plans are. Opening up all the gas outlets in the house Paul has Madge slowly suffocate to death as he hides under the floor, in a secret underground tunnel, with a snorkel as he breaths in all the clean air underneath while Madge is dying in the gas filled room upstairs. Paul is also diabolical enough to seal the room, from the inside, that Madge is in making it look like she killed herself. An open and shut case of suicide for police inspector Gregoire Asian Madge's daughter Candy, Mandy Miller, is certain that Paul, her stepfather, murdered her mother. It turns out that Candy's suspicions of Paul being a cold blooded murderer goes back when her father was killed in a boating accident. Even though ruled accidental by the police Candy, who witnessed the accident, held Paul responsible for her fathers drowning.With Paul knowing that Candy with the help of her dog Toto who, unknowing to Candy, found Paul's secret hiding place had Paul make Toto pay with his life by poisoning him. It's then that Paul tries to drive Candy insane to get her off his back and have Candy locked up in a sanitarium. It's when that plan of his fails to work Paul then decides to murder Candy. In the very same way that he murdered Candy's mother Madge. Having Candy's friend an legal guardian Jean, Bella St. John, fooled into thinking that he's trying to help Candy out of her illogical fears of being murdered, by him, Paul at the same time elaborately sets up the plan for Candy's murder.***SPOILERS*** Even though everything was going smoothly for Paul in getting Candy's guard down, by faking a suicide letter that her mother left her, a number of unexpected things happen that screws up his almost perfect murder plan. In a why Paul's did succeed in getting away with murder in that he couldn't be arrested and prosecuted for his crime. It just happen Paul ended up being, in his trying to murder Candy, the person that he accidentally ended up murdering!Candy being told by everyone, even her friend Jean, that she's both silly and illogical in her both fear and dislike of her stepfather Paul Decker in the end finally give in and agrees with them. That's when she realized by going back into her house, after everyone left, to check that Paul was actually hiding there. As it turn out he in fact was and his time on earth, as well as oxygen supply, was quickly and painfully running out on him!