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The low- budget ($8. Hitchcock's earlier glossy Technicolor. Vertigo (1. 95. 8) and North. Northwest (1. 95. TV series Alfred Hitchcock. Presents. In fact, the film crew was from the TV show, including.

John L. Russell. The master of suspense skillfully manipulates and guides. Marion (a Phoenix real- estate secretary), and then with that character's. Wrestlemania 28 Invincible Song Download on this page. Norman (a brilliant.

Anthony Perkins). Hitchcock's techniques. Psycho also broke all film conventions by displaying.

American film), and. Janet Leigh a third of the way into. The 9. 0- odd shot shower scene was meticulously. Saul Bass, but directed by Hitchcock himself. The shower scene. Brian De Palma's The Phantom of the Paradise (1.

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Marion Crane becomes a secondary Mac. Guffin after her murder. The film's screenplay by Joseph Stefano was adapted. Robert Bloch. Remarkably.

Bloch's 1. 95. 9 novel was based on legendary real- life, Plainfield. Wisconsin psychotic serial killer Edward Gein, whose murderous character. Deranged (1. 97. 4).

Leatherface character in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1. Jame Gumb (. Symbolic imagery involving stuffed birds. Although it's one of the. This film wasn't clearly understood by its critics. Hitchcock admitted that Henri- Georges Clouzot's influential. Les Diaboliques (1.

Fr.) inspired his film. This taut masterpiece was followed by three feature.

Hitchcock) and other imitations or. TV films: Title. Director. Comment. Psycho (1. Not rated until 1. MPAA ratings system rated it M, for mature audiences only. RAlfred Hitchcock. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates.

Psycho II (1. 98. Note: This was a record interval - 2. I' and 'II' picture. Richard Franklin. Anthony Perkins as Norman, released. Marion's sister Lila Loomis. Vera Miles) protests his release.

Psycho III (1. 98. Anthony Perkins, in his directorial. Anthony Perkins as Norman, 2. Bates Motel (1. 98.

Richard Rothstein. TV pilot film, with Bud Cort as Bates. Motel manager. Psycho IV: The Beginning. Mick Garris. Made for cable- TV film. Anthony Perkins as Norman, Henry Thomas as a young Norman.

Olivia Hussey as Norma Bates. Psycho (1. 99. 8)Gus Van Sant. An almost 'scene- by- scene' (actually. The film's four Academy Award nominations failed to. Oscars: Best Supporting Actress (Janet Leigh with her sole career. Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock with the last of his.

Best B/W Cinematography, and Best B/W Art. Direction/Set Decoration.

Bernard Herrmann's famous and memorable. When the film was originally aired in theaters in mid- 1. Hitchcock insisted in a publicity gimmick (a la P. T. Barnum) that. no one would be seated after the film had started - the decree was. Pinkerton guards.

Audiences assumed that something. Violence is present. Phoenix detective named Arbogast is stabbed at the top of. The. remainder of the horror and suspense is created in the mind of the. The Story. The bleak, monochrome film is made more effective. Bernard Herrmann's sparse, but driving, recognizable score, first.

Saul Bass). - shown with abstract, gray horizontal and vertical lines that streak. The frenetic lines appear as prison bars or vertical. The camera. takes a moment to adjust to the black interior - and then pans to.

Attractive, single 3. Marion. (spelled not with an A but an O - signifying emptiness) Crane (Janet. Leigh), wearing only a prominent white bra and slip and reclining. Sam Loomis. (John Gavin) who stands over her.

In the background is a bathroom. Sam speaks the first line of dialogue, referring to. These extended lunch hours.

Sam: Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the. Walk you to the airport?

Sam: Well, you could laze around here a while longer. Marion (foreshadowing a future hotel visit): Hmm. Checking out time.

Hotels of this sort aren't interested in you when you come. Oh Sam, I hate having to be with you. Sam: I've heard of married couples who deliberately spend an occasional. Marion: When you're married, you can do a lot of things deliberately.

Sam: You sure talk like a girl who's been married. Marion: Sam, this is the last time. Sam: For what? Marion: For this, meeting you in secret so we can be secretive.

You. come down here on business trips. We steal lunch hours. I wish you. wouldn't even come. Sam: All right, what do we do instead?

Write each other lurid love. It's. a hot, Friday afternoon . She loves Sam but they can only furtively see each. Sam has flown in from a small town. California to see Marion - and.

Sam secretly. enjoys the illicitness of their sleazy, . One unanswered question in the film: Did Marion. We can even have. In my house, with my mother's picture. Sam: And after the steak, do we send sister to the movies, turn Momma's.

Marion: Sam! Sam: (begrudgingly) All right. Marion, whenever it's possible I want. Marion: You make respectability sound disrespectful. Sam: Oh no, I'm all for it. But it requires patience, temperance.

Otherwise though, it's just hard work. She proposes marriage. But annoyingly, he balks.

She threatens to leave him and thinks she may. I sweat to pay off my father's debts and he's in his grave. They also pay who meet in hotel rooms. If she remarries. Marion: I haven't even been married once yet.

Sam: Yeah, but when you do, you'll swing. Marion: Oh Sam, let's get married! And live with me in a storeroom behind a hardware store. Fairvale? We'll have lots of laughs.

I'll tell you what. When. I send my ex- wife her alimony, you can lick the stamps. Marion: I'll lick the stamps. Sam: Marion, you want to cut this off, go out and find yourself somebody. Marion: I'm thinking of it.

Sam: How could you even think a thing like that? Unhappy and unfulfilled in her unsanctified relationship. Marion rejects his idea to take the afternoon off and rushes back. George. Lowery (Vaughn Taylor) is not back from lunch, but she suffers from. Sam). You forget them as.

She listens to her recently- married co- worker Caroline. Patricia Hitchcock, Hitchcock's real- life daughter) chatter about her interfering.

Teddy. Teddy was furious when he found out I'd taken tranquilizers. Mirrors are ever- present throughout the film - Marion.

Lowery arrives shortly afterwards with. Mr. Tom Cassidy (Frank Albertson).

He is an oil- lease. It's as hot as fresh milk. Cassidy has just proudly bought a house. Harris Street for his .

I want you to take a look at my baby. Eighteen years. old, and she never had an unhappy day in any one of those years. Flirting with Marion, he sits on her desk, and sensing.

Marion is unhappy and feeling deprived with his talk of marriage. You know what I do about unhappiness? I buy it off. Then, the vulgar client takes out the $4. He domineeringly explains how virile. Now, that's, that's not buying happiness. That's. just buying off unhappiness. I never carry more than I can.

He tosses the money on Marion's desk, but the money. Cassidy's daughter's wedding dowry (although.

Caroline is astonished by Cassidy's brash proposition. That's how I get to keep it. It's my private money. Now it's yours. He persuades Lowery to take him into the inner air- conditioned. Lowery instructs Marion to put the large amount. Put it in the safe deposit.

I guess he must have noticed. Both women touch and handle the naughty, filthy money. Marion puts it into an envelope, wraps it up and sticks. She is granted permission to go straight home after. Although she expects to. In a moment. of weakness and impulse, she has been tempted to bring the money.

Next to it is her packed suitcase, ready for a trip. Also, more mirrors. She has redirected the. Cassidy for his . Although she appears casually indifferent and secure in the. She sits down on the bed, stares with desire at the. Because. her suitcase is already full and shut, she stuffs the envelope in.