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Leopard | Cult
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This film's director, Kurt Neumann, had his greatest success with the last film he ever made, the 1958 sci-fi classic The Fly. Unfortunately, Neumann never got to enjoy its success - he died only a month after it was released.
The impassioned speeches Dr. Lazar (Edgar Barrier) delivers to the Leopard Tribe about protecting their cult and homeland feature gestures, facial expressions and vocal inflections clearly intended to remind 1946 audiences of Adolf Hitler.
This film was made back-to-back with the similar Tarzan and the Amazons, with which it shared the same principal cast (Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce and Johnny Sheffield) director (Kurt Neumann) and producer (Sol Lesser). Both were early entries in the RKO Tarzan franchise, after M-G-M did not renew their license with Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Acquanetta, who plays the high priestess of the leopard cult, was an "exotic" actress who appeared in several low budget adventure movies in the 1940s and 50s. She was actually born in Wyoming, with the pedestrian sounding birth name of Mildred Davenport.
This was the next-to-last of Johnny Sheffield's eight appearances as "Boy" opposite Weissmuller as Tarzan. In 1949, he made the first of his twelve movies as Bomba, essentially a low budget, adolescent equivalent of Tarzan.
"Tarzan: Leopards did not kill this man. Leopards never kill with claws alone. Use teeth!"
"Tarzan: If an animal can act like a man, why not a man like an animal?"
