"Cursed with the blood lust of generations!"

1957

1h 16m

4.9(22 votes)

Horror

Overview

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

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17 members

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Barbara Shelley

Leonora Johnson / Leonora Brandt

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Robert Ayres

Dr. Brian Marlowe

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Kay Callard

Dorothy Marlowe

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Ernest Milton

Edmund Brandt

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Lily Kann

Anna

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Jack May

Richard Johnson

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Paddy Webster

Cathy

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John Lee

Allan

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Edward Harvey

Doorman

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Martin Boddey

Cafferty

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Selma Vaz Dias

Nurse

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John H. Watson

Roberts

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John Baker

Male Nurse (uncredited)

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Selma Vaz Dias

Nurse (uncredited)

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Jim Tyson

Barman (uncredited)

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Frank Atkinson

Guard (uncredited)

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Geoffrey Tyrrell

Caretaker (uncredited)

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