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Snakes in Movies   The Squeaker (Der Zinker) (1963)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is a German "krimi" filmed in London based on a 1927 book by the English crime author Edgar Wallace. It includes lots of scenes with snakes and deals with a murderer and blackmailer called "The Snake" who is terrorizing London, killing his victims with venom from a Black Mamba that he shoots with a special gun. Then he makes it look like a real snake bit the victim. He takes a small snake head device with fangs similar to a real snake and uses it to puncture the victim over the wound made by the venom gun. There's a sequence that shows us the killer milking the venom from a snake, putting it into a device that turns the liquid venom into a solid, then putting a small cube of the solid venom into his long metal tube gun. Throughout the film we see a man named Krishna (Klaus Kinski). We first see him when he steals the Black Mamba. Krishna works at a business that sells wild animals, taking care of snakes and other animals. We know he's a creepy weirdo because we see him lying in bed cuddling and kissing one of his snakes. But we don't know the true identity of "The Snake" until the very end since we are presented with several suspects. We also see him feeding a live rodent to a live snake, which grabs it and starts to kill it. In another scene, we see Krishna picking up a crate at the docks when it falls and breaks open to expose a dead body inside and a snake with it. The police are not sure if the snake killed him." We see Krishna removing a snake from a cage, putting it into a bag with a long handle, then going to someone's house and dropping the snake inside on the floor. We see the snake slowly crawling across the floor, accompanied by some swingin' bachelor pad music. Seeming to know that it would make a cool shot for the movie, the snake crawls up onto a coffee table and over a picture of a woman in a seductive pose, then we see it crawling across the bedroom floor and up onto the bed of its intended victim. (Here we go again! Leaving a snake on the floor and assuming it will automatically crawl towards the victim and bite them is one of the most ridiculous snake-used-as-a-weapon clichés there is, and this is one of the worst since the snake has to crawl throught the whole house. It just would never happen that way. The first thing the snake would do is hide. I'm not even sure the snake did go after its intended victim because I couldn't understand Krishna's motivation for wanting to kill him. The plot is confusing at times.) Anyway, the victim sees the snake before it bites him, throws it to the floor, and bashes its brains out with a chair. There's a funny scene later when the police are in his bedroom and the victim tells his servant to remove the dead snake. The inspector tells him he can't do that because they need to take the snake as evidence. They call over a Constable and tell him to put the snake in his helmet, which he clearly doesn't want to do. Most of the live snakes we see in the film are pythons and maybe a boa constrictor or two (it's hard to tell in black-and-white). The snake whose venom is being milked is some type of viper, possibly a Common Eurpean Adder. I don't know if we are supposed to think that all of the snakes are Black Mambas, or just those we see milked and used as weapons, but we never do see an actual black mamba in the film. You can watch the entire film and read a synopsis of it at TheSilentScream.com