Psycho

Psycho, motion picture about a deranged innkeeper and his mother, based on a novel by Robert Bloch. Released in 1960, the film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the innkeeper. Janet Leigh earned a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Marion Crane, the young woman who stops for a night at the Bates Hotel and gets murdered by a figure in a dress while taking a shower. At first it seems that Bates’s mother killed Marion, but later it turns out that Bates has a habit of dressing up in his mother’s clothing and murdering unlucky travelers.

Director

• Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

• Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates)
• Janet Leigh (Marion Crane)
• Vera Miles (Lila Crane)
• John Gavin (Sam Loomis)
• Martin Balsam (Milton Arbogast)
• John McIntire (Sheriff Chambers)
• Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Chambers)
• Simon Oakland (Dr. Richmond)
• Frank Albertson (Tom Cassidy)
• Patricia Hitchcock (Caroline)
• Vaughn Taylor (George Lowery)
• John Anderson (California Charlie)
• Mort Mills (Police officer)
• Francis DeSales (District attorney)
• George Eldredge (Chief of police)
• Sam Flint (Official)
• Helen Wallace (Woman customer)
• Ted Knight (Police guard)
• Alfred Hitchcock (Man outside office in cowboy hat)
• Frank Killmond (Bob Summerfield)
• Virginia Gregg (Mother's voice)
• Anne Dore (Perkins's double in shower scene)
• Marli Renfro (Leigh's double in shower scene)

Awards

• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (1961): Janet Leigh

Trivia

• The filmmaker used chocolate sauce for blood in the shower scene.

Quote

• Norman Bates (referring to his mother): “She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?”