Top cast:Wilfred Lucas,Vivian Prescott,Kate Bruce
Director:Jake Kasdan
Genre:Romance
Region:Taiwan
Year:2004
Storyline:After binding him up with tape, the malevolent Lecter learned that Pazzi had sold him out to Mason Verger, and then intercepted a call on Pazzi's phone from Clarice ("Is this Clarice? Well, hello Clarice"), whom he referred to as "an old friend.(According to Miramax, which released the new version, this new cut totals 197 minutes.)The vibrant film with a remastered, fuller soundtrack used original material and reintegrated scenes excised from the 1979 version (to include greater character detail for Willard, his crew, and Colonel Kurtz (in a scene where he reads from an actualTimeMagazine and shows how the American public was lied to), an expandedPlayboyPlaymates sequence after their helicopter is downed, and an additional French colonial plantation sequence).An additional scene appeared during the end credits.Incarcerated Dr.Connors, in a sparse solitary cell (in an asylum?) during a lightning thunderstorm, listened as a mysterious visitor (Michael Massee) emerged from the shadows and asked: "Did you tell the boy?.As he changed his clothes, he fondly recalled his past days as an adventuresome soldier in the French Foreign Legion.The spectacular, landmark show of the film (premiering in late August of 1980), with original direction and choreography by Gower Champion, opened at the famed Winter Garden Theater, and originally starred Tammy Grimes (as Dorothy Brock), Jerry Orbach (as Julian Marsh) and Wanda Richert (as Peggy Sawyer).