Psycho
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
- genus: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- Studio: Shamley Productions
- keyword: hotel, clerk, shower, arizona, motel, halloween, stolen money, taxidermy, money, secretary, whodunit, corpse, murderer, theft, mental illness, private detective, missing person, psycho, voyeurism, voyeur, oedipus complex, double identity, proto-slasher, mother son relationship, birds, anxious, dramatic, woman on the run, corruptibility, confused identities, human vulnerabilities
- cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire