Monday, 14 June 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – PSYCHO (1960)

“Psycho” is a horror thriller, Screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on the Novel by Robert Bloch and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

 

The plot concerns a Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) who is dissatisfied with the way life has treated her, and unable legitimize her relationship with her married lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin), she embezzles $40,000 from one of her employer's client when she is entrusted with depositing the money at the bank.

Seeing it as an opportunity to start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards California, however fatigue sets in after getting caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel which is managed by a quiet young man called Norman (Anthony Perkins) who seems to be dominated by his mother, but is everything as it appears?

 

Vera Miles, Martin Balsam and John McIntire also shine in this classic Hitchcock masterpiece, a film not to be missed.

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