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Hannibal Lecter influenced Manhunter
Added by Media Influence Map · 23 September 2026
The evidence
Michael Mann's adaptation of Red Dragon, the first of Harris's Lecter novels, made five years before The Silence of the Lambs. Lecter is spelled Lecktor and played by Brian Cox, and the film is built around Will Graham's method rather than around the prisoner.
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