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Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Leopard Man |
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THE LEOPARD MAN is a Val Lewton production directed by Jacques Tourneur in 1943.
New Mexico. Dennis O'Keefe is a publicist whose girlfriend Kiki is a night performer in a local nightclub. One night, he brings her a black leopard with the idea that she will steal the show and have a tremendous success. Unfortunately, the animal, scared by one of the fellow performers of Kiki, runs away and kills a young girl during the night. As a second and a third young woman are killed shortly after this event, Dennis O'Keefe is beginning to have serious doubts about the real identity of the murderer. Why would a leopard stay in town while it could faint into the desert ?
Not as scary as CAT PEOPLE of the same director but still watchable.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Leopard Man |
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Plot
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Special suspect?
- amnesiatic
Kind of mystery?
- amateur citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- animal
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- Bulging muscles
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Check here if B&W
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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