191: Manhunter, Part 2 (with James Majure) (Patreon)

James Majure and I continue our discussion of Michael Mann’s Manhunter, first by exploring Mann’s career-long interest in the 1975 non-fiction book The Home Invaders, a strange mid-series episode of Miami Vice that serves as a tv version of Manhunter with Sonny Crockett going inside the mind of a bizarre cat burglar, and how Dino DeLaurentiis churned out Hannibal material in the wake of success of The Silence of the Lambs (which he didn’t produce) including an inferior Brett Rather version of Red Dragon (shot by the same cinematographer) with an all-star cast and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, which makes one appreciate Mann’s artistic achievement with Manhunter even more.

The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar by Frank Hohimer (1975), a key text for the cinema of Michael Mann which has inspired many works including the forthcoming Heat 2, is available to read on Internet Archive.

1986 TV spot for Manhunter, 1986

Commercial for the network premiere of Manhunter on NBC, 1989

Trailer for Red Dragon (Brett Rather, 2002)