Alfred Hitchcock’s landmark masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose old dark house and adjoining motel are not the palace to spend a quiet evening. No one knows that better then Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), the ill-fated traveler whose journey ends in the notorious “shower scene.” First a private detective, the Marion’s sister (Vera Miles) search for her, the horror and suspense mounting to a terrifying climax where the mysterious killer is finally revealed. It took seven days to shoot the shower scene, seventy camera setups and forty-five seconds of this now famous footage – and not an actual bare breast or plunging knife is to be found in the final cut, just illusion through montage.
