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The Silence of the Lambs
To Enter The Mind Of A Killer She Must Challenge The Mind Of A Madman.
( Crime / Horror / Thriller )


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US Runtime: 118 min

Premiere Date:
Feb 13, 1991   [USA]
 
Director: Jonathan Demme
 
Writer: Ted Tally   [screenplay]
 
Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto
 
Edited by: Craig McKay
 
Costume Design: Colleen Atwood   [Costume Design]
 
Production Company: Orion Pictures Corporation
 


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Miscellaneous Companies:

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
 
R/Greenberg Associates Inc.
titles and opticals
Sound One Corporation
sound mixed at
The Erickson Agency
extras casting: virginia
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$22,000,000 (USA)
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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

Quotes:

  • Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
     
  • Hannibal Lecter: I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
     
  • Jack Crawford: Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.
     
  • 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?
     
  • 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.
     

Trivia:

  • Director Jonathan Demme makes a cameo wearing a blue cap at the end of the film.
     
  • 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.
     
  • The role of Hannibal Lecter was originally offered to Brian Cox (who played the role in Manhunter). Gene Hackman was also offered the role of Hannibal Lecter, and was set to direct. When Jonathan Demme took over as director, he offered the role of Clarice first to Michelle Pfeiffer and also to Meg Ryan.
     
  • 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.
     
  • 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.
     


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