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For the shower scene, composer Bernard Herrmann created an original film score, on his own init [...]	D
Joseph Stefano was adamant about seeing a toilet on-screen to display realism. He also wanted t [...]	D
Sam Loomis' last name is an obvious tongue-in-cheek reference to the Loomis armored truck compa [...]	D
The psychiatrist towards the end of the film comments on Norman Bates' possessive feelings towa [...]	D
After this movie was released, for years Anthony Perkins refused to talk about the part of Norm [...]	D
In the book, Norman Bates is having a whiskey induced "blackout" during the shower murder scene [...]	D
"Psycho'"s daily filming started in the morning and typically finished by 6 p.m. On Thursdays, [...]	D
On the initial release of "Psycho", theater owners feared that they would lose business due to [...]	D
The final shot in the famous shower scene, depicted an extreme close-up on Marion Crane's unbli [...]	D
The continuous shot moving from Marion's lifeless body in the shower, to the newspaper in her c [...]	D
Early in the film, Norman Bates emphasizes his hobby as a taxidermist. The last few scenes in t [...]	D
On-set, Sir Alfred Hitchcock would always refer to Anthony Perkins as "Master Bates." Hitchcock [...]	D
A scene of the film cryptically depicts Lila Crane looking through a book with a blank cover. T [...]	D
The shower scene has over ninety splices in it, and did not involve Anthony Perkins at all. Con [...]	D
An early script had the following dialogue: Marion: "I'm going to spend the weekend in bed." Te [...]	D
The shower scene of the film was shot between December 17 and December 23, 1959. Janet Leigh wa [...]	D
The official trailer back in 1960 ran on for over six minutes and thirty seconds, a feat unhear [...]	D
This movie is said to be heavily influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot's I diabolici (1955), whic [...]	D
Marion and Norman have voiced over interior monologues in their heads: Marion imagines various [...]	D
This was the highest-grossing movie of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's career.	D
"Psycho" is itself broached in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire."	D
Screenwriter Joseph Stefano and director Sir Alfred Hitchcock deliberately layered-in certain r [...]	D
Not only was Sir Alfred Hitchcock intent on keeping this movie under wraps until the last possi [...]	D
Bernard Herrmann achieved the shrieking sound of the shower scene by having a group of violinis [...]	D
When Norman first realizes there has been a murder, he shouts, "Mother! Oh God! God! Blood! Blo [...]	D
In Robert Bloch's novel, Norman Bates is short, fat, older, and very dislikable. It was Sir Alf [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)'s Ted Knight (Ted Baxter) makes an appearance in this movie as one [...]	D
Jeanette Nolan's husband John McIntire played Sheriff Chambers in this film. Jeannette Nolan (w [...]	D
Immediately prior to the closing sequence of Norman Bates in his jail cell, as the camera moves [...]	D
While "Psycho" was considered controversial in the United States, nearly all British film criti [...]	D
In his famous interviews with Sir Alfred Hitchcock, FranÃ§ois Truffaut, who was a fan of the [...]	D
Marli Renfro was paid four hundred dollars as Janet Leigh's body double for some shots (accordi [...]	D
Alfred Hitckcock's first movie that was a big box office success.	D
When Sir Alfred Hitchcock was off due to illness, the crew shot the sequence of Arbogast inside [...]	D
To achieve the effect of the water coming out of the shower head and streaming down past the ca [...]	D
Despite his reputation for cultivating extended working relationships with his leading ladies, [...]	D
Except for some shots filmed on backroads in Southern California (the scenes of Marion fleeing [...]	D
La famiglia Partridge (1970) mother Shirley Jones auditioned for, and almost got, the part of M [...]	D
According to 'The Psycho Movies' website, '' Anthony Perkins wasn't present during the shooting [...]	D
In 1992, this movie was selected for preservation by The Library of Congress at The National Fi [...]	D
This is the only film of the franchise to not release in the 1980s, to be in the black & white [...]	D
For a shot looking up into the water stream of the shower head, Sir Alfred Hitchcock had a six- [...]	D
On its initial release, "Psycho" broke box-office records in Canada, France, Japan, South Ameri [...]	D
Norman's parlor features many stuffed birds, several of whom are associated with wisdom or inte [...]	D
The segment of detective Arbogast's murder, where he struggles to stay upright as the camera fo [...]	D
Marion's lover's name is Sam Loomis. Marion was played by Janet Leigh. Her daughter, Jamie Lee [...]	D
Norman uses three different knives on Marion, Arbogast, and Lila.	D
The scene where Marion smiles as she imagines Mr. Cassidy's remarks about her while she flees f [...]	D
Although Norman Bates typecasted Anthony Perkins, he said he still would have taken the role, e [...]	D
When she was auditioned for the job of Janet Leigh's body double in Psycho's iconic shower scen [...]	D
Anthony Perkins had not one, but two, shower scenes in 1960. He also starred with Jane Fonda (i [...]	D
The stabbing scene in the shower is reported to have taken seven days to shoot, using seventy d [...]	D
The shot of the knife appearing to enter Marion's abdomen was achieved by pressing it against h [...]	D
During the shower scene, when Janet Leigh turns her back on her assailant, slow motion viewing [...]	D
Marion Crane's white 1957 Ford sedan is the same car (owned by Universal Studios) that the Clea [...]	D
Based on the social conventions of the time, and the facts of the story, Mrs. Bates would've be [...]	D
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #14 Greatest Movie of All Time.	D
The movie features seven actors and actresses who starred on Ai confini della realtÃ (1959). [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock: At six minutes 35 seconds, man wearing a cowboy hat outside Marion's office. [...]	D
There are several references to birds in this movie: Marion's surname is Crane, Norman's hobby [...]	D
After this movie's release, Sir Alfred Hitchcock received an angry letter from the father of a [...]	D
During filming, this movie was referred to as "Production 9401" or "Wimpy". The latter name cam [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock ran a deliciously droll and terse radio ad in the summer of 1960. In an er [...]	D
At 00:48 when Marion tells Norman she was worried that "Mother" could harm him, Norman replies [...]	D
Since the death of Patricia Hitchcock in 2021, Vera Miles is now the sole surviving member of t [...]	D
The shot of Arbogast falling backward down the stairs was a process shot of Martin Balsam sitti [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock even had a canvas chair with "Mrs. Bates" written on the back prominently [...]	D
For the scenes where Marion Crane drives away from Phoenix, a film crew shot footage on Highway [...]	D
Voted the number one horror movie of all time by watchmojo.com.	D
"Psycho" was first released to the home video market in 1979, on the LaserDisc format.	D
Shooting wrapped February 1, 1960, nine days over schedule. A rough cut was finished by April, [...]	D
Before Psycho (1960), movie theaters would play shows on rotation all day long. People would fr [...]	D
The censorship board which examined "Psycho" protested the depiction of intimacy between Sam Lo [...]	D
Michael Powell directed the infamous movie L'occhio che uccide (1960), which has been called th [...]	D
Janet Leigh has said that when he cast her, Sir Alfred Hitchcock gave her the following charter [...]	D
The theatrical trailer shows Sir Alfred Hitchcock giving a partial tour of the set located on t [...]	D
In the film, the Bates main residence was based on the painting "House by the Railroad" (1925) [...]	D
In the book, Norman is about forty. In the movie, he is about twenty-six. Sir Alfred Hitchcock [...]	D
In Bates Motel: Hidden (2017) of the television series Bates Motel (2013), based on characters [...]	D
According to Janet Leigh, the wardrobe worn by her character Marion Crane was not custom made f [...]	D
Lead actors Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh were encouraged to improvise on how they would inte [...]	D
In the shower scene, there are two split-second frames of the knife touching Marion's body.	D
In 1970, storyboard artist Saul Bass published 48 of his storyboard drawings which had been use [...]	D
The Bates house was largely modelled on an oil painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York [...]	D
This movie was given an R rating by the MPAA in 1984 even though the movie was released in 1960 [...]	D
Currently (2019) the oldest movie in release to carry an R rating, having been released eight y [...]	D
Bernard Herrmann composed the cue "The Swamp" for the scene where Marion's car is sinking in th [...]	D
Felicia Farr, Carolyn Jones, Caroline Korney, and Eleanor Parker were considered for the role o [...]	D
The Bates house, though moved from its original location, still resides on Universal's lot. The [...]	D
In an interview on The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Sir Alfred Hitchcock said of the shower scene, [...]	D
According to Psycho IV (1990), the two previously unidentified women whom Norman Bates (Anthony [...]	D
The amount of cash Marion stole, $40,000 in 1960 would be equivalent to approximately $352,000 [...]	D
Due to the censorship rules of the Hays Code, Marion Crane's murder scene was less violent than [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Included among the 25 films on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of AFI's 100 Years of Fi [...]	D
This movie was first scheduled to air on U.S. network television in the fall of 1966. Just befo [...]	D
The film was produced at the end of Janet Leigh's seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures, [...]	D
During the initial release of "Psycho", lead actors Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins were prohib [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock claimed in different interviews that the final version of the shower scene inv [...]	D
As well as changing the character of Norman Bates, another variation on the novel is that the m [...]	D
The movie in large part was made because Sir Alfred Hitchcock was fed up with the big-budget, s [...]	D
Hitchcock's stated reason for not allowing anyone in after the start of the movie, was that he [...]	D
The first draft of the screenplay for "Psycho" was written by television writer James P. Cavana [...]	D
Assistant director Hilton A. Green shot helicopter footage of Phoenix, Arizona for the opening [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock personally funded Psycho's entire cost of production.	D
"Mother", or Norma Bates, is played by several actors and actresses in the movie, including Ant [...]	D
"Psycho" was one of the last major productions in Hollywood to be released in black-and-white f [...]	D
After Norman returns with a tray after being chewed out by his mother for feeding Marion, his r [...]	D
Assistant director Hilton A. Green took photos of 140 different locations, which were intended [...]	D
The famous shower scene in this film ended up influencing a major sequence of another very cont [...]	D
Although disputed, it is claimed that graphic designer and title director Saul Bass directed th [...]	D
The shower scene was originally written to see only the knife-wielding hand of the murderer. Si [...]	D
The shower scene involves the depiction of blood in the water. The prop used was Hershey's choc [...]	D
Norman Bates is ranked the second greatest villain on AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains. [...]	D
It's just "Mrs. Bates" in this movie; her first name isn't specified until the sequels.	D
Much of the film was shot with 50 mm lenses on 35 mm cameras. This provided an angle of view si [...]	D
The composer Bernard Herrmann initially refused to work on "Psycho". Due to the film's lower bu [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock tested the fear factor of Mother's corpse by placing it in Janet Leigh's d [...]	D
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, uses a publicity still whic [...]	D
The film's first scene is set on December 11th, placing its events in early winter. In the Unit [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted to make this movie so much that he deferred his standard $250,000 s [...]	D
Saul Bass's iconic movie titles, with gray bars that shred the names of the film's director and [...]	D
Ludwig van Beethoven's 3rd Symphony ("Eroica") is in Norman's record player.	D
During post-production, Sir Alfred Hitchcock had several wrangles with the censors over scenes [...]	D
The set buildings for the Bates Motel and the Bates residence were constructed at the Universal [...]	D
One of Norman Bates' first lines in the film explains why his motel is usually vacant. It is lo [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock's regular director's fee in the late 1950s amounted to 250,000 dollars. For "P [...]	D
While entrusting the shooting of various film footage and minor scenes to assistants, Alfred Hi [...]	D
During the initial release of "Psycho", several film critics either derided it as "a gimmick mo [...]	D
Features Janet Leigh's only Oscar nominated performance.	D
Kim Stanley, noted Actors Studio legend, was offered the role of Lila, but turned it down due t [...]	D
Anthony Perkins was paid $40,000 for his role, which is the same amount of money that Marion Cr [...]	D
Paramount Pictures gave Sir Alfred Hitchcock a very small budget with which to work, because of [...]	D
Alma Reville (Alfred Hitchcock's wife) reportedly spotted a few shots in the shower scene where [...]	D
The sound that the knife makes penetrating the flesh is actually the sound of a knife stabbing [...]	D
CBS was the first television channel to purchase television rights to "Psycho", at the price of [...]	D
During filming, Alfred Hitchcock requested the creation of various versions of the "Mother corp [...]	D
Reflections are often used to imply schizophrenia, but in this movie, everyone except Norman Ba [...]	D
"Psycho" was reportedly the first mainstream American film to depict a flushing toilet. The cen [...]	D
Assistant director Hilton A. Green found a young woman who matched his visual image of Marion C [...]	D
When the cast and crew began work on the first day, they had to raise their right hands and pro [...]	D
When Norman Bates is about to spy on Marion Crane (through a hole in the wall), he holds an ima [...]	D
Lila Crane is standing in front of a display of lawn rakes in the hardware store scene that are [...]	D
The scene where Vera Miles explores the bedroom of the deceased Mrs. Bates might have had some [...]	D
It has been noted here that Walt Disney was disgusted with this movie, and, as a result, refuse [...]	D
The reason Sir Alfred Hitchcock cameos so early in the movie was because he knew people would b [...]	D
The group of censors in charge of enforcing industry standards on "Psycho" reportedly had a dis [...]	D
Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh said that they did not mind being stereotyped forever because o [...]	D
When Norman spies on Marion as she gets ready to shower, the painting he removes from the parlo [...]	D
Shirley Jones was up for, and almost got, the part of Marion Crane in Psycho. If she had beaten [...]	D
In 2008, Marion Cotillard re-enacted the shower scene in a photoshoot for Vanity Fair. Cotillar [...]	D
Because he was working with a low budget, Sir Alfred Hitchcock did not want to use top marquee [...]	D
Psycho starts in Phoenix, Arizona (a real place) and ends in Fairvale, California (not a real p [...]	D
$40,000, the amount stolen by Marion Crane (Janet Leigh ), is the same amount deposited in the [...]	D
This was Sir Alfred Hitchcock's last theatrical movie in black-and-white. It was filmed from No [...]	D
While writing the screenplay, Joseph Stefano was in therapy dealing with his relationship with [...]	D
"Psycho" was the first film released in the United States under a "no late admission" policy, b [...]	D
Norma's lover, Joe Consodine, is the one who convinced her to start the Bates Motel and gave he [...]	D
This movie features in both the American and British Film Institutes' Top 100 lists.	D
Ranked #1 on the AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills film series.	D
According to Stephen Rebello, author of "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," Sir Alfred [...]	D
In the Collector's Edition DVD documentary, Janet Leigh says that a nude body double was used i [...]	D
Martin Balsam, playing a detective who shares his name, later spoofed his role as Milton Arboga [...]	D
This movie made its American television debut on WABC in New York City on June 24, 1967.	D
In Robert Bloch's original novel, Norman Bates is pudgy and middle aged. But Hitchcock knew tha [...]	D
The first U.S. television station to show this movie was WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York City, [...]	D
The car behind Marion as she is driving through downtown is a 1959 Plymouth Fury. Considered ad [...]	D
A false story has circulated that George Reeves was hired to play detective Milton Arbogast and [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies. [...]	D
Stephen King said "people remember the first time they experienced Janet Leigh, and no remake o [...]	D
Controversy arose years later when Saul Bass made claims that he had done the complete planning [...]	D
Norman's mother was voiced by Paul Jasmin, Virginia Gregg, and Jeanette Nolan. Nolan provided s [...]	D
Although highly controversial in 1960, this movie is now an iconic thriller.	D
This was voted the seventh scariest movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly.	D
The car that Marion buys is a 1957 Ford Custom.	D
The sound of the knife entering flesh (in the shower scene) was created by plunging a knife int [...]	D
The first scene to be shot was the one in which Marion, asleep in her car, is awakened by a hig [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock used Bosco chocolate syrup instead of blood, because it showed up better o [...]	D
Film director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, who worked together in "Psycho", [...]	D
Bernard Herrmann wrote the main title theme before Saul Bass created the opening credit sequenc [...]	D
Martin Balsam plays the heroic and tragic private investigator Milton Arbogast in this movie, N [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock paid title sequence designer Saul Bass (also credited as "Pictorial Consul [...]	D
During pre-production, Sir Alfred Hitchcock said to the press that he was considering Helen Hay [...]	D
Hilton A. Green was Sir Alfred Hitchcock's assistant director. Two decades later, Green would s [...]	D
The claim that Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Joseph Stefano originally conceived the film with a jaz [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted either Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, Cliff Robertson, or [...]	D
Marion Crane's eyes should be dilated after her death, but they are not. The contact lenses nee [...]	D
The music score in the shower scene was rumored to have used electronic amplification. Bernard [...]	D
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann that he [...]	D
In the novel, the character of "Marion" was "Mary" Crane. The name was changed because the stud [...]	D
Director Alexander Payne said he couldn't imagine this movie being made in color, because it's [...]	D
The Bates main residence was famously modeled after the house depicted in the painting "House b [...]	D
In the scene where the psychiatrist is explaining about Norman the calendar on the wall reads 1 [...]	D
In an attempt to minimize the cost of the film's production, Alfred Hitchcock hired film crew m [...]	D
According to Psycho II (1983), Lila Crane (Vera Miles) and Sam Loomis (John Gavin) married afte [...]	D
According to Stephen Rebello, the Hays Office censors requested changes to the shower scene. So [...]	D
The Edward Hopper painting "House By the Railroad," the inspiration for the Bates home, was mod [...]	D
The novel "Psycho", written by Robert Bloch, was part of a series of pulp novels marketed in co [...]	D
The original film trailer of "Psycho" did not feature Janet Leigh in any way, as she was no lon [...]	D
The look of the tall vertical mansion on the hill contrasted with the low, long motel was a del [...]	D
As part of publicity campaign prior to release of this movie, Sir Alfred Hitchcock said: "It ha [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock always preferred to film indoors on a soundstage, and only the distant sho [...]	D
At 30:01 there is an error in the subtitle. Norman states that the cabin has "stationery with " [...]	D
Downtown Phoenix in 2021 has grown substantially since the film was shot. However, the intersec [...]	D
In 1970, "Psycho" was first added to Universal Pictures' syndicated programming packages for lo [...]	D
Among the major promotional items for this movie was a lengthy coming attractions trailer (film [...]	D
Veteran character actor Martin Balsam, who plays Arbogast, never appears in another Hitchcock f [...]	D
The film was co-produced by Shamley Productions (a production company owned by Alfred Hitchcock [...]	D
John Anderson, the used car salesman, is familiar to fans of the next generation as he was a no [...]	D
Body count: four (if you count Mother, though two earlier victims are mentioned in this movie, [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock produced this movie when plans to make a movie starring Audrey Hepburn, ca [...]	D
There have been several written comments on the close similarities between real-life killer Ed [...]	D
In total, three actresses recorded Norma Bates' dialogue. Their recordings were then mixed toge [...]	D
The scene at the real estate office where (Marion Crane works) required a number of retakes. Ja [...]	D
According to biographers, Sir Alfred Hitchcock had a troubled relationship with his own dominee [...]	D
The ending involves a superimposition of three elements that many people fail to notice. The la [...]	D
Although Janet Leigh was not bothered by the filming of the famous shower scene (though she use [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock was under contract to deliver one more film to Paramount Pictures, but Paramou [...]	D
The painting Norman Bates removes to observe Marion as she undresses in her washroom is Susanna [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock: [mother] Norman has a close relationship with his mother.	D
The film was primarily shot at Revue Studios, the then-corporate name for the former Universal [...]	D
According to the opening title cards, the action of this movie begins on Friday, December 11. E [...]	D
Part of the film's epilogue is a detailed description of Norman Bates' mental delusions and dis [...]	D
Perhaps because of his disapproval of Psycho, and to insult Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Walt Disney c [...]	D
Vera Miles and Anthony Perkins are the only actress and actor to appear in both this movie and [...]	D
The composer Bernard Herrmann set the tone of impending violence with the film's introductory t [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock: [bathroom] Marion hides in the bathroom to count the required number of bills [...]	D
Various news sources have falsely reported that Marli Renfro (Janet Leigh's body double) was ev [...]	D
At the end of the shower scene, the first few seconds of the camera pull-back from Janet Leigh' [...]	D
One of the reasons why Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted to make this movie in black-and-white is bec [...]	D
In the novel, Norman is described as being in his forties, short, overweight, and homely. Howev [...]	D
During the last seconds of the slow zoom out from Marion's head laying lifeless on the bathroom [...]	D
In the film, Norman Bates habitually eats candy corn. It is a type of pyramid-shaped candy, wit [...]	D
This was Sir Alfred Hitchcock's first horror movie.	D
Final film of Lillian O'Malley.	D
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for [...]	D
There is a similarity in Psyco (1960) seen and heard in The Raven (1935). In both films, the ma [...]	D
Contrary to a widely told tale, Sir Alfred Hitchcock did not arrange for the water to suddenly [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
At 6:37 Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance standing on the sidewalk as seen from inside Mario [...]	D
"Psycho" is considered emblematic for the erosion of the Hays Code's censorship standards durin [...]	D
The periwinkle blue color mentioned by the sheriff's wife refers to the periwinkle plant, whose [...]	D
James P. Cavanagh was the first writer to adapt Robert Bloch's novel for the production. Howeve [...]	D
The movie's line "A boy's best friend is his mother." was voted as the #56 movie quote by the A [...]	D
Janet Leigh received threatening letters after this movie's release, detailing what they would [...]	D
In the novel, it is explained that Marion and Sam met on a cruise and fell in love, which is ho [...]	D
In 2006, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon created an art installation consisting of a twenty-four [...]	D
Screenwriter Joseph Stefano found the character of Norman Bates (as depicted in the novel) over [...]	D
In the film, Marion Crane's emotions towards Norman Bates were intended to be "a maternal sympa [...]	D
In his youth, Anthony Perkins had a boyish, earnest quality, reminiscent of the young James Ste [...]	D
This film contains many "echoes" of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's earlier movie La donna che visse due [...]	D
For the shower scene, two different cameras were used. One of them was a Mitchell Camera, a typ [...]	D
Bernard Herrmann related how the shots of Marion driving away after taking the money looked ver [...]	D
Although it was believed that Sir Alfred Hitchcock was having problems with his marriage during [...]	D
Janet Leigh only had three weeks to work on the movie and spent the whole of one of those weeks [...]	D
Actress Meg Tilly has starred in two sequels to two classic movies. She first starred in 'Psych [...]	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
Alfred Hitchcock: [hair] Lila, and Mother.	D
Mary Crane was a relatively minor character in the "Psycho" novel, depicted in only two of the [...]	D
The music score in the film's shower scene reportedly had the string instruments emulating bird [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock received several letters from ophthalmologists who noted that Janet Leigh' [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock asked graphic designer Saul Bass to find a way to make the house appear mo [...]	D
On CA 99, which eventually turns into Pacific Avenue near the Fife and Tacoma border in Washing [...]	D
Bernard Herrmann decided to use only strings in his score to have a black and-white sound to go [...]	D
This movie only cost $800,000 to make, and earned more than $40 million. Sir Alfred Hitchcock u [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock had not intended the film to be set at Christmas, as established by the date i [...]	D
The fictional town of Fairvale most of the film takes place in is shown to be in Shasta County, [...]	D
To ensure the people were in the theaters at the start of this movie (rather than walking in pa [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock had previously cast Vera Miles in Il ladro (1956). He wanted to cast her i [...]	D
This movie marked the fifth and final time that Sir Alfred Hitchcock earned an Oscar nomination [...]	D
Walt Disney refused to allow Sir Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s beca [...]	D
Janet Leigh invented a complete backstory for Marion Crane, figuring out what she was like in h [...]	D
The two scenes of Norman's mother when she leaves her bedroom to go downstairs, are both shown [...]	D
One of the reasons Sir Alfred Hitchcock shot the movie in black-and-white was he thought it wou [...]	D
Multiple characters in Halloween - La notte delle streghe (1978) are inspired by this movie. Ja [...]	D
The film has been rated and re-rated over the years, from PG, to PG-13 and 15, to R.	D
Peggy Robertson (1916-1998), script supervisor and personal assistant to Alfred Hitchcock, was [...]	D
Despite the fact that the entire movie is in black-and-white, several viewers vividly (and spec [...]	D
The car dealership in the movie was actually Harry Maher's used car lot near Universal Studios. [...]	D
Sandwiches and milk, snacking from a bag of Candy Corn, and having peanut butter and crackers i [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock was very uneasy about the morphing of Norman's face into Mother's at the e [...]	D
Parts of the house were built by cannibalizing several stock-unit sections including a tower fr [...]	D
Marion's bra changes from white (angelic) to black (bad) after she steals the $40,000 to show t [...]	D
Anthony Perkins was Sir Alfred Hitchcock's first choice for the part of Norman Bates.	D
Stuart Whitman was Sir Alfred Hitchcock's first choice for the role of Sam Loomis.	D
While filming "Psycho", Janet Leigh was reportedly shocked to realize how vulnerable people are [...]	D
"Psycho" was considered unusual for its early depiction of "gender nonconformity". Norman Bates [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock teased the press that Dame Judith Anderson, who had famously essayed the p [...]	D
The shower scene was shot from December 17 through December 23, 1959. It features seventy-seven [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock was initially disappointed with the movie. He even disliked the shower sce [...]	D
In order to implicate viewers as fellow voyeurs, Sir Alfred Hitchcock used a 50 mm lens on his [...]	D
"Psycho" contains recurring references to birds in both its dialogue and the images. Marion and [...]	D
The butcher knife used by Bates is a,VForschner Victorinox 430-12.	D
The composer Bernard Herrmann decided against hiring a full symphonic ensemble for the film sco [...]	D
Diabolique (1955) is a French psychological horror film, made several years before Psycho (1960 [...]	D
Assistant director Hilton A. Green and storyboard artist Saul Bass had originally filmed the sc [...]	D
To paraphrase from the play "The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde opined how man's tra [...]	D
The police officer suggests to Marion Crane that it is safer to sleep in motels, rather than sl [...]	D
John Gavin appeared in both this film and Spartacus (1960) in the same year. This means he work [...]	D
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock and director of photography John L. Russell regularly used two ca [...]	D
"Psycho" had its first screenings in the DeMille Theatre (located in Times Square) and the Baro [...]	D
The highway patrolman who finds Marion Crane asleep in her car tells her that she should have s [...]	D
Film scholars have noted that two of the most violent scenes in "Psycho" take place under brigh [...]	D
The film was budgeted so well, that total production costs came to just less than $807,000 at t [...]	D
Anthony Perkins and Martin Balsam both later starred together in Assassinio sull'Orient Express [...]	D
In the novel, Sam Loomis figures out Norman Bates' pathology and explains it to Lila Crane. Scr [...]	D
The novelist Robert Bloch came up with the idea of a killer "living in isolation with a religio [...]	D
In the scene where Lila Crane explores the upstairs of the Bates House, she opens an untitled b [...]	D
To spy on Marion, Norman removes a painting titled "Susannah and the Elders" from a peephole in [...]	D
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock originally envisioned the shower sequence as completely silent, b [...]	D
Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh's husband at the time, claimed in his autobiography that the film's su [...]	D
"Psycho" has been described as an inspiration to two different horror film genres: the "splatte [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the Top 100 Most Heart-Pounding Ameri [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock hated the infamous psychiatrist explanation scene done by Dr. Fred Richman [...]	D
In the film, Norman Bates is revealed to be keeping his childhood toys and stuffed animals in h [...]	D
In the novel, Sam Loomis falls in love with Lila Crane, after having lost her sister Mary Crane [...]	D
For Marion's driving scenes, to get her proper actions and facial expressions, Alfred Hitchcock [...]	D
In Halloween - 20 anni dopo (1998), Janet Leigh drove a 1950s car similar to Marion Crane's, wh [...]	D
In the opening scene, Marion Crane is wearing a white bra because Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted t [...]	D
The first scene to be shot was of Marion getting pulled over by the cop. This was filmed on Gol [...]	D
The head of Mrs. Bates, seen at the end of this movie, was donated by Sir Alfred Hitchcock to H [...]	D
On February 8, 1960, exactly one week after he finished this movie, Sir Alfred Hitchcock direct [...]	D
Based on Arbogast's coin-slot choice, and the sound inside the payphone when he calls Lila and [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock decided to not have private screenings of "Psycho" for professional film criti [...]	D
Every theater that showed this movie had a cardboard cut-out installed in the lobby of Sir Alfr [...]	D
Alfred Hitchcock acquired the film rights to the novel "Psycho" in his own name, rather than th [...]	D
The novel upon which this movie was based was inspired by the true story of Ed Gein, a serial k [...]	D
Considered for the role of Marion were Eva Marie Saint, Lee Remick, Angie Dickinson, Piper Laur [...]	D
For the high angle above the stairs in the Arbogast murder scene and the shot of Norman carryin [...]	D
During the scene where the Psychiatrist is explaining Bates' psyche, behind him on the file cab [...]	D
The record on Norman's turntable is Beethoven's Eroica. It was originally dedicated to Napoleon [...]	D
The camera used to shoot Norman's point of view as he watched Marion undress through the peepho [...]	D
Vera Miles wore a wig for her role, as she had to shave her head for her role in Jovanka e le a [...]	D
Ranked #14 on the AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition, up 4 places from #18 in [...]	D
In later interviews, Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Janet Leigh categorically stated that it was her [...]	D
The MPAA objected to the use of the term "transvestite" to describe Norman Bates in the final w [...]	D
The strings-only music by Bernard Herrmann is ranked #4 on AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores.	D
The film takes place in December 1959.	D
The score, composed by Bernard Herrmann, is played entirely by stringed instruments.	D
Vera Miles' Lila Crane character is heroic in this movie and villainous in Psycho II (1983). In [...]	D
DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Alfred Hitchcock): (Identifying with guilt): Marion's fears of being caught [...]	D
First billed Anthony Perkins does not appear until twenty-seven minutes into the movie. Second [...]	D
Bernard Herrmann had written a cue for the climax where Mrs. Bates is revealed to be a skeleton [...]	D
This was the last movie Sir Alfred Hitchcock made for Paramount Pictures. To avoid interference [...]	D
Norman says that their business dropped away "when the highway was moved." This was a typical s [...]	D
The motel being cut off from the main highway when they moved it, thus reducing the number of v [...]	D
Robert Bloch (Norman Bates' creator) wanted the character to appear beneath suspicion to his pe [...]	D
The map on the wall behind the psychiatrist while he's talking in the Chief of Police's office [...]	D
The original film trailer of Psycho featured unusually jovial music. Alfred Hitchcock had decid [...]	D
Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh were allowed to improvise their roles. For example, Norman's ha [...]	D
When Janet Leigh signs the motel registry, the entry above seems to be that of another female g [...]	D
Sir Alfred Hitchcock strictly mandated, and even wrote into theater managers' contracts, that n [...]	D
When Marion is having a conversation with Norman in his parlor, Norman says in reference to his [...]	D
The policeman who finds Marion asleep is driving a 1958 Ford Galaxie.	D
The showgirl Marli Renfro (1938-) was reportedly hired as Janet Leigh's body double for the film's s [...]	D
John McIntire, John Anderson, Virginia Gregg, and Jeanette Nolan all appeared in Il virginiano: Bitt [...]	D
Marli Renfro, the unbilled nude model who doubled for Janet Leigh in portions of the murder sequence [...]	D
The American Film Institute ranked Norman Bates as #2 on the Top 50 Greatest Movie Villains.	D
Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates), Vera Miles (Lila Crane) and Virginia Gregg (Norma Bates) are the onl [...]	D

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