The Leopard Man (1943)
Run time: Approved | 66 min | Horror, Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Writers: Ardel Wray, Edward Dein
Stars: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
Taglines: Don’t Be Afraid To Know the Truth about the
Monster That Killed For a Thrill! |
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Storyline An excellent low-budget thriller, directed with savage poeticism by Tourneur, about a series of murders attributed to an escaped leopard. |
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Fun Facts 1. The black leopard Dynamite also appeared in Val Lewton’s Cat People (1942). 2. In the Summer of 1952, RKO reissued this film as a double feature with King Kong (1933). RKO “cashed in”, as young theatergoers, due to this film’s title, were expecting to see a second “creature” film. |
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