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- 1960
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 108 mins
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Summary
Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Absconding with $40,000 of her employer's money, Marion Crane sets off to join her lover Sam Loomis in California. After a tiring journey through the rain, she stops at a lonely motel run by Norman Bates, an intense young man who lives with his domineering mother.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
David Parkinson
Containing the most famous montage sequence since The Battleship Potemkin (namely that shower scene), this is easily the most shocking film produced by the "Master of Suspense", Alfred Hitchcock. Yet the director always maintained it was a black comedy. Working with a TV crew, Hitch completed the picture for a mere $800,000 and it went on to become his biggest commercial success. The opening segment, involving Janet Leigh and an envelope of stolen cash, is the biggest "MacGuffin" in Hitchcock's long career. But his most audacious achievement is in getting the viewer to side with creepy Anthony Perkins against the authorities, Leigh's nearest and dearest, and his own incessantly shrewish mother.
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Cast
rolenameNorman BatesAnthony PerkinsMarion CraneJanet LeighLila CraneVera MilesSam LoomisJohn GavinMilton ArbogastMartin BalsamSheriff ChambersJohn McIntireDr RichmondSimon OaklandCarolinePatricia Hitchcock
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rolenameDirectorAlfred Hitchcock
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Theatrical distributor
Universal
Released on
2010-04-02
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Black and white
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