Val Lewton's cycle of horror thrillers were superbly crafted. Suspenseful and atmospheric, they are rightly placed as some of the best in the genre. One of these films, all though it was a critical and commercial success, THE LEOPARD MAN (RKO, 1943), directed by Jacques Tourneur, doesn't get as much coverage as some of his other more popular films such as the two CAT PEOPLE movies (1942, 1944) and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943). This was remedied in a detailed retrospective by Scott Preston in the April, 2007 issue of CINEACTION.
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