)The film was based on the 1981 best-selling novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, from a screenplay by Ted Tally (the scriptwriter forThe Silence of the Lambs (1991)).Colonel Stryker drove into Logan""s lumberyard, warning him that "someone is hunting down our old team" - with both Wade and now Bradley murdered.While demonstrating his accurate aim during target practice, he shoots bottles off a wooden fence above a sign reading "Property of MIDLOTHIAN CITIZENS BANK - TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED.Regarding a request by the Archbishop to prohibit professors from Spain or Italy from teaching at Uppsala University, he oldest university in Sweden, she wisely warns against narrowness and staleness of instruction: "The danger is not so much of corruption, my lord, as of staleness.