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Release Date:
8 May 1943 (USA)
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Women Alone the Victims of Strange, Savage Killer! more
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At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick...
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1 nomination
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My favorite Lewton-Tourneur film
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Dennis O'Keefe | ... | Jerry Manning |
| Margo | ... | Clo-Clo |
| Jean Brooks | ... | Kiki Walker |
| Isabel Jewell | ... | Maria - Fortune Teller |
| James Bell | ... | Dr. Galbraith |
| Margaret Landry | ... | Teresa Delgado |
| Abner Biberman | ... | Charlie How-Come |
| Tuulikki Paananen | ... | Consuelo Contreras (as Tula Parma) |
| Ben Bard | ... | Roblos - the Police Chief |
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66 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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USA:TV-PG (TV rating) |
USA:Approved (PCA #9179)
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The black leopard was named Dynamite. It was the same cat that Val Lewton used for Cat People (1942).
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Continuity: The smoke from Jerry's cigarette during the conversation with Galbraith in the nightclub during Clo-Clo's dance.
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Kiki Walker: It may sound like music to her. I can do better with my teeth in a cold shower.
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Kiki Walker: It may sound like music to her. I can do better with my teeth in a cold shower.
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Featured in Monsterama Sci-Fi Late Night Creature Feature Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V)
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I think 'The Leopard Man' is the most memorable and frightening of the three Lewton-Tourneur collaborations. While it may be more straightforward than 'I Walked With a Zombie' or 'Cat People,' it's more atmospheric and more effective because its chills are predicated on agoraphobic horror. 'I Walked With a Zombie' was confined to a tropical island setting, while 'The Leopard Man' takes place in a New Mexico border town, on the edge of town, so that we travel along the desolate and wide open spaces of the sleepy Southwest at nighttime.
Early in the film, a young Mexican girl is sent on a late-night errand by her mother to buy some tortilla. Being that the shop is closed, she must traverse the sandy expanse between town and the nearest open shop. During this trek, she must pass under a bridge, and the shadows and sounds that stalk her are terrifying. Recalling this scene, right now, gives me goosebumps.
Horror is the most cinematic of all genres, because it works directly on the viewer's emotions and fears, using atmosphere, sound, and montage as its tools. Most horror films are either exploitative or slick and empty, unfortunately, but to watch 'The Leopard Man' is to encounter the full potential of the horror genre, as Tourneur paints with shadows and not entrails. Forgive its plot holes and its lunkheaded denouement, because the journey there is a hair-raising walk in the dark.