The victim""s boyfriend Rod Lane was the prime suspect in the homicide, due to his prior history of arrests for brawling and drugs." [Off-screen, Hannibal""s cherished baby sister was cannibalized by the soldiers.]Eight years later after the war ended, the Lecter Castle had become a Soviet-run orphanage ("the People""s Orphanage").BackgroundThe Talk of the Town(1942) is a classic romantic comedy/drama of the 1940s from producer/director George Stevens and Columbia Pictures.4 million dollar effort directed by Czech Milos Forman.Its allegorical theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital (Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon), a place of rebellion exhibited by a energetic, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes (personified by the patients"" supervisory nurse).