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Plot Summary:
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A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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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)
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- 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:
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- Budget:
- $19,000,000
- Revenue:
- $272,742,922
- Camera:
- Panavision Cameras and Lenses
- Color Info:
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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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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: 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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Hannibal Lecter: Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Sounds charming.
Clarice Starling: That's only part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful...
Hannibal Lecter: [cuts her off] Terns? If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" for us too. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no? [pause] Yes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting.
Clarice Starling: Go, doctor.
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Clarice Starling: If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir?
Hannibal Lecter: Who can say. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.
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Trivia:
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- Then Secretary of Labor, Elizabeth Dole's, Washington, D.C. office doubled for that of the F.B.I. director's office in the movie.
- The events in this film occur after the events in Manhunter. Although there are several characters common to both films, there are only two actors who appear in both movies. Ironically, both actors play different characters in both movies. Frankie Faison plays Lt Fisk in Manhunter and Barney in Silence of the Lambs, and Dan Butler plays an FBI fingerprint expert in Manhunter and an entomologist in Silence of the Lambs.
- When Demme filmed the scene where Lecter and Starling first meet, Anthony Hopkins said he should look directly at the camera as it panned into his line of sight. He felt Lecter should be portrayed as "knowing everything."
- Anthony Hopkins described his voice for Hannibal Lecter as, "a combination of Truman Capote and Katharine Hepburn."
- Director Jonathan Demme makes a cameo wearing a blue cap at the end of the film.
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