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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: 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: 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: Amputate a man's leg and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?
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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 cunt."
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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Trivia:
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- 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.
- After the shootout with Gumb, Starling has partially burned gunpowder buried in the skin on the side of her face, the result of a near-miss. One name for this type of injury is "coal miner's tattoo" - a clever reference to the character's background.
- 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).
- George A. Romero makes a cameo as the bearded man who accompanies Chilton and the two guards who forcibly remove Clarice Starling after her final meeting with Lecter.
- Scott Glenn's character of Jack Crawford was based on real-life detective John Douglas. Douglas spent time with Glenn to coach him.
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