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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: 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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Hannibal Lecter: Do you think he visualizes scenarios, exchanges... fucking?
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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Hannibal Lecter: I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
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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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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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- 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."
- Buffalo Bill is the combination of three real life serial killers: Ed Gein, who was skinning his victims; Ted Bundy, who used the cast on his hand as bait to make women get into his van; and Gary Heidnick, who kept women he kidnapped in a pit in his basement.
- 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.
- At least six directors have roles in this film: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Kasi Lemmons, Roger Corman, Dan Butler (who directed episodes of "Frasier"), and a cameo by George A. Romero.
- The third EMS attendant treating "Sgt. Pembrie" is Jeff Busch, a paramedic in real life and owner of an emergency vehicle company in Pittsburgh that detailed all of the emergency vehicles for the film.
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