from Shamley Productions
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Starring
Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates)
Vera Miles (Lila Crane)
John Gavin (Sam Loomis)
Martin Balsam (Milton Arbogast)
John McIntire (Sheriff Chambers)
Simon Oakland (Dr. Richmond)
Vaughn Taylor (George Lowery)
Frank Albertson (Tom Cassidy)
Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Chambers)
Patricia Hitchcock (Caroline)
John Anderson (California Charlie)
Mort Mills (Highway Patrolman)
Janet Leigh (Marion Crane)
Written by
Robert Bloch (novel)
Joseph Stefano
Original Music by
Bernard Herrmann
Rated: 
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 Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins),
the tremulous manager of a dilapidated roadside hotel and an
amateur taxidermist with a predilection for birds, suffers under
the domination of his "mother," who rather savagely
disapproves of fast women. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is the
blond who impulsively steals $40,000 and has the bad luck to
pick the Bates Motel while on the run. Generally considered the
progenitor of the horror genre, and an unmitigated masterpiece.
Based on the eponymous novel by Robert Bloch.
In its original release, which was before the MPAA, the film
had no rating; It was rated M (for Mature Audiences) by the MPAA
for a 1968 re-issue; then re-rated R in 1984. Psycho was the
first Hollywood film to show an image of a toilet flushing.
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