Ok, so I think this was a mid to late 60’s detective caper. I’m picturing a rumpled B movie gumshoe ala Peter Falk or Alan Arkin (but not them), solving this case of disappearing models/actresses. It’s sketchy, but I remember one of the girls was strangled with a snake that was hidden in a fur coat. I remember the final scene in this space age looking lab with giant cryogenic capsules that were holding the starlets for the evil scientist’s future “use” The movie had a strong technicolor aspect- that’s pretty much all I got.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060592/
Wow, that had been driving me crazy for years. I probably saw this on late night tv in the early 70’s when I was about eight or nine. I just checked the trailer on Youtube, and it is definitely it. Good job, thanks!!
Solved.