the leopard man be the third and the last horror film make by jacques tourner in collaboration with rko producer val lewton and others be cat people and i walk with a zombie . make use the same visual and narrative technique a the previous film and this one be not so successful in achieve the same quality a other two of them . the leopard man be a sort of mixture between a horror film and a film noir or a balance between them and if to say it correctly . the story be simple represent a leopard escape from a travel circus in a small new mexican town and terror begin to reign when the corpse of a young woman be find apparently dead a a result of leopard attack . the hunt for the leopard begin while more people become victim of a ferocious animal and meanwhile the question arise represent be it really the leopard who be guilty of all those murder . positive .