Thursday 24 October 2024

The Leopard Man (1943 Jacques Tourneur)

Another marvellously atmospheric and textured entry from the legendary Val Lewton cycle.

I was thinking watching this that they are almost like watching a dream - you can't quite accept that they're real, and yet you are so in it that you do accept everything that happens.

Contributions from Robert de Grasse and Mark Robson no doubt significant.



Stars Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabell Jewell, James Bell. Written by Ardel Wray, with additional dialogue from Edward Dein, from a Cornell Woolrich novel 'Black Alibi'. Memorable scenes include vulnerable woman alone in a locked cemetery.


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