"Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. – Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer."

"May The Silence Be Broken!!"

"When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help."

"Prepare yourself for the most exciting, mesmerising and terrifying two hours of your life!"

"To enter the mind of a killer, she must challenge the mind of a madman."

"Jonathan Hale - Mr. Anthony"

"Robert Gist - Leslie Hennessy"

"Norma Varden - Mrs. Cunningham"

"Marion Lorne - Mrs. Anthony"

"Kasey Rogers - Miriam Joyce Haines"

"Patricia Hitchcock - Barbara Morton"

"Leo G. Carroll - Sen. Morton"

"Robert Walker - Bruno Anthony"

"Ruth Roman - Anne Morton"

"Farley Granger - Guy Haines"

"It's off the beaten track!"

"You'll be in the grip of love's strangest trip!"

"A tennis star plays a match with murder!"

"It starts with a shriek of a train whistle...and ends with shrieking excitement!"

"I still think it would be wonderful to have a man love you so much he'd kill for you."

"I beg your pardon, but aren't you Guy Haines? ...I certainly admire people who do things. People who do things are important. Me, I never seem to do anything."

"Frank Finlay - Amafi"

"Richard Roundtree - John Shaft"

"Shaft is stickin' it...all the way."

"THE Brother Man in the Motherland."

"Debebe Eshetu - Wassa"

"Neda Arneric - Jazar"

"Vonetta McGee - Aleme"

"Marlene Dietrich - Tana"

"Akim Tamiroff - 'Uncle' Joe Grandi"

"Orson Welles - Police Captain Hank Quinlan"

"Janet Leigh - Susan 'Susie' Vargas"

"Charlton Heston - Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas"

"Pete Menzies: [to Vargas, about Quinlan] Sure. You can smear him. Ruin his whole life's work. Vargas, I-I don't even know what he is. That's what you've done to him....He's on an important case and he's disappeared. Good and drunk probably."

"Pete Menzies: [to Vargas, about Quinlan's bad leg] He got it in a gun fight...He was wounded stopping a bullet that was meant for me."

"Marcia Linnekar: I guess that's my father. I'm not acquainted with my father's girlfriends."

"We are both after the same exact thing, Captain. If Vargas goes on like this, shooting his face off...Somebody's reputation has got to be ruined. Why shouldn't it be Vargas's?"

"We're gonna get him where it really hurts and without laying a hand on him. He's got a reputation. He's got a young bride. He's gonna leave this town wishing he and that wife of his had never been born."

"Of course, even on his honeymoon, the chairman of the Pan-American Narcotics Commission has a sacred duty to perform."

"Until he gets out, who's running this outfit?...Oh, what a set-up to work with! One brother in jail, two others dead, and nobody left to carry on the business for the bunch of nephews."

"Mort Mills - Al Schwartz, district attorney's assistant"

"Valentin de Vargas - Pancho, Grandi hood"

"Dennis Weaver - Mirador Motel night manager"

"Ray Collins - District Attorney Adair"

"I understand very well what he wants...Tell him I'm a married woman, and that my husband is a great big official in the government, ready and willing to knock out all those pretty front teeth of his."

"Joseph Calleia - Police Sergeant Pete Menzies"

"There's an old lady on Main Street last night picked up a shoe. The shoe had a foot in it. We're going to make you pay for that mess."