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Bookmark this pageThe Leopard Man (1943)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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From Time Out Film Guide
Last of the three films with which Jacques Tourneur got producer Val Lewton's series of low-budget horrors at RKO off to a marvellous start, based on Cornell Woolrich's novel Black Alibi. Is it the leopard from a travelling zoo which has escaped after a publicity stunt, or something more sinister wreaking havoc in the Mexican border town? This slim question is transformed by Tourneur's fluent and expressive use of shadows into a stylistic tour de force. A film for lovers of pools of darkness.Author: PH
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Producer: Val Lewton
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Ben Bard full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 66 mins
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