well and for the most part and anyway . in a rural part of new mexico and actress kiki walker be compete for attention with a local castanets dancer . kiki manager bring her a leopard on a leash so she can show the dancer up during her performance . her rival one ups her by snap the castanets right in the leopard face and which drive it wild . it break free from it mistress grasp . a it flee from the night club and a waiter raise his hand represent three bloody claw mark from try to stop the wild beast . the meat of the film be make up mostly from three tragedy result from the leopard or do they . okay and so the or do they . part isn not great and but those three tragedy be three of the best sequence in film history and no doubt . the first concern a young girl force by her mother to buy cornmeal in the middle of the night . her young brother meanly tease her by make leopard shape shadow puppet on the wall . the second involve a young girl who have go to the graveyard to put flower on her mother grave and and also to meet with her lover . when she doesn not find him there and she become depressed and doesn not hear the groundskeeper warning that he be lock the gate . the third happen to the castanet player and whose fortune teller turn up the ace of spade for her several time in a row without fail . an expert express the belief that the leopard could not have cause all of these event and so the film becomes and unfortunately and a whodunit . the answer be obvious immediately and even if it not believable . fortunately and the direction be so excellent and as well a the set piece and that even with such a weak solution and the film be a near masterpiece . positive .