Review – The Leopard Man

In the wake of their success with Cat People, director Jacques Tourneur and producer Val Lewton try to recreate the magic and fail miserably. The two movies are united by the presence of a big cat, but otherwise they couldn’t be less alike. Well-paced supernatural suspense has been replaced by a meandering plot about an escaped leopard that adopts a Jack-the-Ripper-esque MO (a dead giveaway that something else is probably afoot). The characters are uninteresting, as is the story. At least it was relatively brief. See if desperate