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Psycho
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Run Time: 120 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1960
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre/Type: Thriller
Slasher Film
Psychological Thriller
Producers: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot Synopsis by Mark Deming
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he regales her with curious stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next, but while the shower scene is justifiably the film's most famous sequence, there are dozens of memorable bits throughout this film. The first of a handful of sequels followed in 1983, while Gus Van Sant's controversial remake, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche, appeared in 1998.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Anthony Perkins Norman Bates Apr 4, 1932 in New York City, NY
Janet Leigh Marion Crane Jul 6, 1927 in Merced, CA
Vera Miles Lila Crane Aug 23, 1929 in Boise City, Oklahoma
John Gavin Sam Loomis Apr 8, 1931 in Los Angeles, CA
Martin Balsam Milton Arbogast, detective Nov 4, 1919 in Bronx, New York City, NY
John McIntire Chambers, the sheriff Jun 27, 1907 in Spokane, WA
Simon Oakland Dr. Richmond Aug 28, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Frank Albertson Tom Cassidy, millionaire Feb 2, 1909 in Fergus Falls, MN
Patricia Hitchcock Caroline
Vaughan Taylor George Lowery
Lurene Tuttle Mrs. Chambers Aug 29, 1906 in Pleasant Lake, IN
John Anderson California Charlie Oct 20, 1922 in Clayton, IL
Mort Mills Highway Patrolman Jan 11, 1919
Marion Crane
Ted Knight Prison Guard Dec 7, 1923 in Terryville, CT
Frank Killmond Bob Summerfield
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Review by Mark Deming
In a decade in which what was acceptable onscreen would change more radically than at any other time in history, Psycho was in some ways the first shot in the battle for freer filmmaking in the 1960s. Few movies of its time were more direct and unapologetic in their violence or served it up with such disorienting abruptness or tongue-in-cheek wit. With its casual depiction of sex outside marriage, fleeting nudity, bursts of shocking violence, killing off a major character less than halfway through the movie, and focus on the psychological subtext of the murderer's personality, as well as the geometric imagery of Saul Bass's credit sequence and the percussive strings of Bernard Herrmann's score, Psycho was the film with which Hitchcock left the 1950s behind and started the 1960s with relish. Time hasn't hurt the film, either; it still generates a palpable tension and the odd chemistry between Perkins and Leigh in their dinner scene is a wonder to behold. While the film is still frightening after all these years, repeated screenings reveal a cold-blooded humor; with Psycho, Hitchcock tore asunder the audience's expectations of what a suspense film should be, and he appears to have had a wonderful time doing it.
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