The Leopard Man

THE LEOPARD MAN (1943)

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The Leopard Man

The Cemetery Scene

Kiss of The Panther Woman

Expert Witness

Magic Realism

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The Leopard Man

Killer Mexican film noir —

The perfect ode de cologne

The sweet scent of death

Scary Val Lewton —

Creepy Jacques Tourneur

RKO Femme fatales of film!!!

Clicking Castanets —

Cemeteries late at night

Death in the Dead of Night

Dark Forties Suspense —

Endless Sinister Suspicions

Who’s gonna get it next?    

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The Cemetery Scene

The best scene —

In the whole scary movie

Some queens think

The jilted young lover —

Stood up by her boyfriend

Stuck with all the dead stiffs

Locked in the cemetery —

Darkness creeping into the

Deepening deadly denouement

Gaunt Graveyard Statues —

Leering down at the poor thing

Waiting for the stealthy Killer

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Kiss of The Panther Woman

Stalked by the fiendish —

Black Panther of Death

No girl is safe, honey

But not everything —

Tiptoeing on cat’s feet is

A little innocent Kitty-cat

Defenseless cuties —

Are tres Vulnerable as

Killers prowl the night

Half the Thrill —

Being a Killer at night

Your Stalking noir footsteps

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Expert Witness

What makes a Witness —

Expert while testifying

At a Murder Trial?

The erudite, all-knowing —

Dr. Galbraith played by James

Bell in The Leopard Man?

How calm cerebral —

The pipe-smoking professor

Of the local Museum?

The least one you’d —

Suspect as a Killer yet so

Knowingly cold-bloodied

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Magic Realism

Just ask Miss Marquez —

That primal noir image:

Blood flowing under the door

The Unseen Murder —

The scream behind the bolted

Locked door, then the Blood

The thud of the thug —

The young daughter sliced

And diced so horribly bloody

The Unseen Murder —

Hidden from Us Viewers

There on the Other Side