The Leopard Man

(1943)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 132 votes

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Crime

Year: 1943

Runtime: 66 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Tuulikki Paananen, Ben Bard, Ed Agresti

Plot

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

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. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts. In the days that follow, people are mauled and the countryside is combed for the loose creature. But Kiki and her manager begin to wonder if maybe the leopard is not responsible for the killings.