
Also known as Psycho 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and his disturbed mother. A private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin) and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.
Psycho is a 1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a woman on the run who encounters a shy motel owner and his disturbed mother, leading to a mysterious disappearance that sparks an investigation. The film, based on Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, features Anthony Perkins as the motel proprietor and Janet Leigh as the embezzler, and has become a landmark work in the horror genre.
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When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
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