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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho / a Universal release ; a Paramount release ; screenplay by Joseph Stefano ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 61122483 | Universal61180849 | UniversalLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Series: Universal 100th anniversary collector's seriesPublisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2012]Copyright date: ©1960Description: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Psycho
Uniform titles:
  • Psycho (Motion picture : 1960)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, John L. Russell ; art direction, Joseph Hurley & Robert Clatworthy ; set decorator, George Milo ; edited by George Tomasini ; costume supervisor, Helen Colvig ; music by Bernard Herrmann.
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Albertson, Lurene Tuttle, Pat Hitchcock, John Anderson, Mort Mills, and Janet Leigh.Summary: Disgruntled Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. When Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer, she decides to take the money and leave town. When a tired Marion is caught in a storm, she pulls off the main highway and checks into the Bates Motel. The manager of Bates Motel is a quiet young man named Norman Bates, who seems to be dominated by his mother.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he regales her with curious stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next, but while the shower scene is justifiably the film's most famous sequence, there are dozens of memorable bits throughout this film. The first of a handful of sequels followed in 1983, while Gus Van Sant's controversial remake, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche, appeared in 1998. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD; region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono; anamorphic widescreen presentation (1.85:1 aspect ratio), dual layer.

English or dubbed French (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono); with optional English SDH or Spanish subtitles.

Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Albertson, Lurene Tuttle, Pat Hitchcock, John Anderson, Mort Mills, and Janet Leigh.

Director of photography, John L. Russell ; art direction, Joseph Hurley & Robert Clatworthy ; set decorator, George Milo ; edited by George Tomasini ; costume supervisor, Helen Colvig ; music by Bernard Herrmann.

Based on the novel by Robert Bloch.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

MPAA rating: R.

Disgruntled Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. When Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer, she decides to take the money and leave town. When a tired Marion is caught in a storm, she pulls off the main highway and checks into the Bates Motel. The manager of Bates Motel is a quiet young man named Norman Bates, who seems to be dominated by his mother.

Bonus materials: Production notes; Theatrical trailer; Re-release trailers; Newsreel footage: the release of "Psycho"; The shower scene; The "Psycho" archives.

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