L’Homme au masque de Verre

L’Homme au masque de Verre (1958)

The Snorkel

Paul (Peter van Eyck) tue sa (très riche) femme dans sa villa italienne et passer passer son meurtre pour un suicide au gaz. Grâce à un masque et un tuba et une cachette secrète, il commet le crime parfait. D’autant que tout le monde croit qu’il était en France au moment des faits. Tout le monde sauf sa belle fille Candy (Mandy Miller), convaincue qu’il a assassiné sa mère, comme son père des années plus tôt. Jean (Betta St. John), son tuteur, l’inspecteur (Grégoire Aslan) et le représentant du consulat britannique Wilson (William Franklyn) pensent qu’elle a perdu la tête. Mais Candy est déterminée à prouver le meurtre.

Date de sortie
1958-07-07
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (39)
Durée
1 h 30 min
Genres
Thriller, Crime, Drame
Réalisateur
Guy Green

Distribution

Anecdotes

The Snorkel is a 1958 British thriller film directed by Guy Green and starring Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John and Mandy Miller. It was a Hammer Films production, and the last film role for Miller.

Production

In March 1957 it was announced the film would be made by Kenwood Films, a production company of Ken Harper and J. Lee Thompson.

In the book Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography, director Green recalled working on The Snorkel with producer Michael Carreras, whom he called "...very cooperative, as well as a delightful person to be with, and very much responsible for making the film a most pleasant experience. He and I had a great time casting the smaller roles."

The film was the first starring vehicle for actress Mandy Miller; Green described her as "...a natural talent and a very professional girl, but a bit too mature for the part, and all our efforts failed to disguise this." Of star Peter van Eyck, Green said that "he had to do a lot of difficult swimming and, one day after spending most of the morning manfully keeping up with a motorboat from which he was being photographed, Peter said, 'You never a…

The budget on The Snorkel was about 20 per cent above the average Hammer Films shoot, due to the extensive location photography (the Italian villa used in the movie was Villa della Pergola, located in Alassio, Liguria's riviera).

The film was reportedly produced without a distribution deal in place. Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography claims that an agreement with Warner Bros. had fallen through and Hammer executive James Carreras (father of producer Michael) only later struck a deal with Columbia Pictures for both The Snorkel and its co-feature in a double-bill, The Camp on Blood Island.

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