| **Leopard Man, The (1943) | (holder), Isabel Jewell, Margo, Jean Brooks, Jacqueline deWit "Jewell smokes unfiltered in three scenes: one walking (brief); second scene, constantly smoking as a gypsy and with dangling/long drags/deep inhales/ nose and mouth exhales with great lighting (Photography); third scene, walking with Margo's character and smoking. Margo has two scenes, unfiltered: one drag inhale/exhale and tosses it away; second scene, two great french inhales. Jean Brooks has two scenes as well: first, long drag and inhale so deep viewer can barely see the nose exhale; second, nice lighting scene (cigarette) open mouth inhale with exhale. Lastly, in one scene, a woman smoking with a holder edited into Margo's second scene. One of the best smoking movies I have ever seen for variety of women and styles. A good story, too." "deWit also smokes, in a nightclub scene, with a light-up and a couple of good exhales. As the other reviewer said, this film has an incredible amount of smoking, usually well-filmed and well-lit, by women who smoked well. The only slight drawbacks for some might be that most of the shots are medium to wide shots, not close-ups, and that none of the actresses are particularly young or beautiful. They're mostly the kind of hard-edged world-weary women you often found in film noir or B-pictures of the 40s, although I'm not sure the film is dark enough to qualify as noir."
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