PSYCHO (1960)

THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose "old dark house" and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening. No one knows that better than Janet Leigh, the film's ill'fated heroine who is victimized in the now-notorious "shower scene." Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John Gavin and John McIntire co-star in Hitchcock's most compelling and terrifying film. Screenplay by Joseph Stefano.

STARRING:

Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh

SCREENWRITER: Joseph Stefano

DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock

RUNNING TIME: 109 minutes

STUDIO: Universal

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: A

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(4 nominations and 0 wins)

Best Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh
(nominated)

Best Director - Alfred Hitchcock
(nominated)

Best Art Direction (B/W) - Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
(nominated)

Best Cinematography (B/W) - John L. Russell
(nominated)

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GOLDEN GIGGLES

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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GOLDEN GLOBES
(1 nomination and 1 win)

Best Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh
(winner)
 
 
 

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• This film is based on the book of the same name by Robert Bloch.
• As of 10/22/2006 this movie is ranked #22 on the imdb.com list of the 250 best movies of all time.
• Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the book from Robert Block anonymously for a mere $9000, the director then bought as many copies of the book as possible so that no one would know the ending.
• Even though most films at the time were filmed in color, Hitchcock decided to film in black and white, it is believed the director chose to do this because it made bloody scenes seem less violent, and also because it made filming cheaper.
• This film was made for a budget of about $800,000 and had a box office of more that $40 million.
• The blood scene in this movie was actually Bosco chocolate syrup.
• Contrary to a popular rumor, Hitchcock did not shoot ice cold water on actress Janet Leigh to get her to do her now famous scream.
• Hitchcock received an angry letter from a father who said that her daughter refused to take a bath after seeing the film Diaboliques, Les and now after seeing Psycho refused to take a shower. Hitchcock reportedly wrote a letter back to the father telling him to take her to the dry cleaners.
• As usual Hitchcock can be see in a small role in this film, he is the man wearing a cowboy hat approximately 4 minutes into the film.
• Psycho marked the last film that Hitchcock made under Paramount Pictures. By the time filming took place Hitchcock had already moved his offices to Universal and filmed most of this on the back lot of Universal Studios. Universal was able to acquire the rights, although the Paramount logo can still be seen at the start of the film.
• The white sedan driven by Marion is the same car that The Cleavers drove in Leave It To Beaver. The Ford was owned by Universal.
• This marks the first American film to show a toilet flushing on screen, this happened due at screenwriter Joseph Stefano's repeated requests to Alfred Hitchcock to show a toilet flushing to add realism to the movie. Hitchcock told him to make it work in the script and he would put in the movie.
• Janet Leigh was only on set for 3 weeks, 1 of those weeks was spent filming just the shower sequence.
• Hitchcock decided to make this film after saying he was fed up with making big budget blockbuster movies, Hitchcock enjoyed shooting his TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents that he decided to model the shooting of this movie after the shooting of the show. As a result he used lesser-known actors for the film and ended up using much of his crew from his show as the crew for this movie.

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