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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: 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: I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
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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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Jack Crawford: Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.
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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.
- Only the third movie to win all five major Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. The others were Frank Capra's It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- 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.
- In his first meeting with Clarice Starling, Lecter describes the drawing on his cell wall as "the Duomo, seen from the Belvedere" in Florence, Italy. Starling later finds Buffalo Bill living in Belvedere, Ohio. Lecter, in fact, gives her Buffalo Bill's location in their first meeting.
- A 'Bon Appetit' magazine can be seen in Hannibal Lecter's temporary cell.
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