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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.
Theatrical
Sep 8, 1960
Digital
Nov 4, 2014
Box Office
$2K
Budget
$2K
Return
1.0x
DVD / Blu-ray
May 25, 2021
Theaters
9
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Joseph Stefano
Producer
Alfred Hitchcock
Music
Bernard Herrmann
Studio
Shamley Productions
Themes
hotel
detective
clerk
arizona
shower
motel
halloween
stolen money
alter ego
taxidermy
murder
money
serial killer
secretary
slasher
psychological thriller
black and white
corpse
murderer
theft
overbearing mother
stabbing
mental illness
private detective
missing person
split personality
psycho
voyeurism
voyeur
oedipus complex
nervous
double identity
abusive mother
dual personality
proto-slasher
multiple personality disorder
mother son relationship
birds
motel owner
woman on the run
corruptibility
confused identities
human vulnerabilities
baffled
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Taglines
Exploring the blackness of the subconscious man!
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The screen's master of suspense moves his camera into the icy blackness of the unexplained!
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Don't give away the ending — it's the only one we have!
Series of American horror films, loosely based on the "Psycho" novels by Robert Bloch, which focuses on the deeply disturbed individuals who operate the Bates Motel.
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Cast
Full credits →A
Anthony Perkins
Norman Bates
J
Janet Leigh
Marion Crane
V
Vera Miles
Lila Crane
J
John Gavin
Sam Loomis
M
Martin Balsam
Milton Arbogast
J
John McIntire
Al Chambers
S
Simon Oakland
Fred Richman
F
Frank Albertson
Tom Cassidy
P
Patricia Hitchcock
Caroline
V
Vaughn Taylor
George Lowery
L
Lurene Tuttle
Mrs. Chambers
J
John Anderson
California Charlie
M
Mort Mills
Highway Patrol Officer
F
Fletcher Allen
Policeman on Steps (uncredited)
W
Walter Bacon
Church Member (uncredited)
F
Francis De Sales
Alan Deats (uncredited)
G
George Dockstader
(uncredited)
G
George Eldredge
James Mitchell (uncredited)
S
Sam Flint
County Sheriff (uncredited)
V
Virginia Gregg
Norma Bates (voice) (uncredited)
