Oct 13 : #ValLewton produced Horror
#Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmNoir #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
#TheLeopardMan (1943)
A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
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Oct 13 : #ValLewton produced Horror
#Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmNoir #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
#TheLeopardMan (1943)
A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
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Great Horror Movie Posters, day 404. #GreatHorrorMoviePosters #MoviePosters #TheLeopardMan
#TheLeopardMan (1943) 🐆
A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite
#FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
If it kills like a leopard, leaves traces like a leopard, it's just a dude with extensive knowledge of leopards.
#TCMParty #TheLeopardMan

A teenage girl takes a nerve-wracking nocturnal walk, briefly startled by a train and a pair of glowing eyes in the darkness, before her desperate cries for help lead to a death conveyed by a pool of blood under the front door. #JacquesTourneur's third and final horror film for #ValLewton is a murder-mystery set in New Mexico, with three standout scenes of subtle terror in the Cat People tradition. #OnThisDay 80 years ago, RKO released #TheLeopardMan.

#ClassicHorror #1940sHorror #HorrorMovies

Remembering #JacquesTourneur (1904-77), the remarkable French film / television director & editor, born in Paris #onthisday. In Hollywood, he set the tone for Val Lewton's exceptional RKO horror cycle with the influential, insidious trio of #CatPeople (1942), #IWalkedWithaZombie and #TheLeopardMan (1943)...

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