The Leopard Man

Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, et al.

A dancer and a PR man solve killings blamed on an escaped leopard.

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• UPC: 826663199857
• Release Date: July 2019
• Rating: R
• Publisher: SHOUT! FACTORY
• Director: Jacques Tourneur
• Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Richard Martin, Tula Parma, Ben Bard
• Runtime: 1 hour, 6 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: ntsc
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

All of our lives are like the ball bouncing at the top of the fountain.

Rival entertainers meet in a club in New Mexico. Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) brings in a leopard to upstage Clo-Clo (Margo). But Clo-Clo gets the last laugh when she chases the leopard off with her castanets. All is a fun rivalry until people start dying. Naturally, the local authorities think it is the leopard. But Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe), who rented the leopard, has a theory that this is the work of a demented person. This theory is sort of supported by Dr. Galbraith (James Bell), the local museum curator. To make matters worse, the leopard's owner, Charlie How-Come (Abner Biberman), does not remember where he was at the time. As with the cat people, it is what you don't see that can harm you. And the simple turning of a card can mark you for death. You may recognize Dynamite the leopard that was also used in the movie "Cat People". Produced by Val Lewton (7 May 1904, Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)), whose storytelling device is unique in that this is more of a psychological film that does not focus on any one person, as they are all pawns in a much larger story. Sometimes it verges on the surreal. Now that you have seen the film, read the book "Black Alibi" by Cornell Woolrich.