|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
Horror /
Thriller
|
|
Release:
|
|
|
Director:
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
Actors:
|
Janet Leigh,
Vera Miles,
John Gavin,
Vaughn Taylor,
Mort Mills,
Patricia Hitchcock,
Anthony Perkins,
Martin Balsam,
John McIntire,
Simon Oakland,
Frank Albertson,
Lurene Tuttle,
John Anderson
|
|
Duration:
|
108 min.
|
|
Rating:
|
(8.7/10)166.5
|
|
Plot Summary:
|
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the cave in enthusiasm has treated her. She has to pay her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to dish most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by means of her organization. Seeing the opportunity to take the lolly and start a new existence, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California accumulation. Unoriginal after the long force and caught in a storm, she gets mouldy the fundamental highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed not later than a no... iselessness inexperienced gyves called Norman who seems to be dominated past his .
Read more Less
|
|
Tags:
|
|
Hitchcock rewriting of the horror genre
Hitchcock was helped by having a first-class screenplay with intelligent dialogue. He worked his magic to produce a definitive resetting of the style of the genre; in my opinion he was not to reach such a height in his subsequent work. We are blessed to have this, which is a rich reference for all who are students of the art of film-making.
Psycho
The music, the setting, the shower scene, the mother in the cellar... everything about this iconic film has passed into cinema history. Alfred Hitchcock directs a genuine classic and the grandaddy of all slashers
Janet Leigh plays Marion Crane, a clerical worker bored with her job and frustrated by her relationship with earnest lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin). She absconds with $40,000 of her company's money and heads out of her home town, Phoenix. Caught in a sudden downpour at night on a dark road, she seeks refuge in a roadside motel run by shy amateur taxidermist Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). The rest - especially the legendary shower scene - is Hollywood history.
Hitchcock approached this as a quick, cheap production - using the crew from his TV show to...
|
