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Cast:
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Crew:
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- c-5, inc.
- sound effects and foleys produced at
- General Camera Corporation
- location services
- J.G. Films Inc.
- negative matching
- M & Co.
- main titles design
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- R/Greenberg Associates Inc.
- titles and opticals
- Sound One Corporation
- sound mixed at
- The Erickson Agency
- extras casting: virginia
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
- Bellaire, Ohio, USA
- Bimini Airport, South Bimini Island, Bahamas
- Department of Labor Frances Perkins Building - 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, District of C
- Lambert International Airport - 10701 Lambert International Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA [stock footage]
- Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, USA
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Quantico, Virginia, USA
- Soldiers and Sailors Museum and Memorial - 4141 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA [Baltimore jail scenes]
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Tech Info:
- Budget:
- $22,000,000 (USA)
- Camera:
- Panavision Cameras and Lenses
- Color Info:
- Color (Eastmancolor)
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Spherical
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm
- Shooting Dates:
- 15 Nov 1989 - 01 Mar 1990
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Quotes:
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Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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Hannibal Lecter: Do you think he visualizes scenarios, exchanges... f**king?
Clarice Starling: That doesn't interest me, Doctor, and frankly, it's... it's the sort of thing that Miggs would say.
Hannibal Lecter: Not anymore.
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Murray: Is it true what they're sayin', he's some kinda vampire?
Clarice Starling: They don't have a name for what he is.
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Hannibal Lecter: Now then, tell me. What did Miggs say to you? Multiple Miggs in the next cell. He hissed at you. What did he say?
Clarice Starling: He said, "I can smell your c**t."
Hannibal Lecter: I see. I myself cannot. You use Evian skin cream, and sometimes your wear L'Air du Temps, but not today.
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Hannibal Lecter: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desparately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars...while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI.
Clarice Starling: You see a lot, Doctor.
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Trivia:
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- Brooke Smith (Catherine Martin) and Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill) were actually very close on the set, making Jodie Foster refer to Brooke as "Patty Hearst" (meaning a woman that is actually close with her kidnapper).
- Dino De Laurentiis, who had produced Manhunter, passed on Silence of the Lambs because Manhunter had flopped. He gave the rights away free to Orion Pictures.
- Almost all the scenes in Hannibal's original cell have either a reflection of Hannibal or Clarice, depending on the camera's point of view.
- Thomas Harris, author of the novel "The Silence of the Lambs" has never watched the film because he is afraid it will influence his writing.
- The Tobacco horn worm moths used throughout the film were given celebrity treatment by the filmmakers. They were flown first class to the set (in a special carrier), had special living quarters (rooms with controlled humidity and heat) and were dressed in carefully designed costumes (body shields bearing a painted skull & crossbones)
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