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Pappy, Josh, Stevie, and Special Guest Dave Mello review the Hitchcock classic: Psycho!
Read Dave's 150 Favorite Movies! https://medium.com/the-film-project-150-favorite-movies
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
Release date: September 8, 1960 (USA)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Story by: Robert Bloch
Screenplay: Joseph Stefano
Sequel: Psycho II
Adapted from: Psycho
Read Dave's 150 Favorite Movies! https://medium.com/the-film-project-150-favorite-movies
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
Release date: September 8, 1960 (USA)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Story by: Robert Bloch
Screenplay: Joseph Stefano
Sequel: Psycho II
Adapted from: Psycho