Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Dan Butler
- Jimmy Price
- (as Dan E. Butler)
Alexandra Neil
- Eileen
- (as Alex Neil)
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- Writers
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Featured review
Having finally seen MANHUNTER, I am left wondering why anyone ever felt the need to remake it - RED DRAGON is a fine flick, with a fine cast, but it feels exceptionally pale given what a tremendous source it was drawing from; scene for scene, line for line at some points.
So much threat, such a pervading sense of menace; the character work, and the direction, the wonderful soundtrack - it hums along, and there's no place to stop to catch your breath. I really adored this, and if you're looking for a really engrossing thriller, and I mean thriller, this movie delivers.
So much threat, such a pervading sense of menace; the character work, and the direction, the wonderful soundtrack - it hums along, and there's no place to stop to catch your breath. I really adored this, and if you're looking for a really engrossing thriller, and I mean thriller, this movie delivers.
- michaeljpfitzgerald
- Sep 5, 2019
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Storyline
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- TriviaWhen the production could not get permission to film on board a commercial airplane, writer and director Michael Mann booked his actors, actresses, and crew onto a twilight flight from Chicago to Florida, where the production was relocating anyway. A stripped-down camera, lighting and sound equipment were taken on board as carry-on luggage. Pilots and flight attendants were appeased with gifts of movie crew jackets.
- GoofsThe movie implies that Will Graham uses a Charter Arms Bulldog .44 special pistol. If this were true, then Will could not shoot Francis Dollarhyde six times. A Charter Arms Bulldog only holds five rounds. Graham actually shoots the gun seven times, but two of the shots are repeated; the first and second shot that we see are actually the same one, as are the six and seventh. Thus, he only actually fires five bullets, which is the number that the gun can hold.
- Quotes
Will Graham: I know that I'm not smarter than you.
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: Then how did you catch me?
Will Graham: You had disadvantages.
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: What disadvantages?
Will Graham: You're insane.
- Alternate versionsThe Hannibal Lecter Collection released by MGM in 2007, which also features The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001), contains the authentic Theatrical Cut of the film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Prime Movers: Strong As I Am (1986)
- SoundtracksGraham's Theme
Created, Performed and Composed by Michel Rubini
Composed by Michel Rubini on the Synclavier Digital Music System
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- El sabueso
- Filming locations
- High Museum of Art - 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, USA(Lecktor's prison exteriors)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,620,929
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,204,400
- Aug 17, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $8,624,009
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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