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We had a torso specially made up for that scene, with the blood that was supposed to spurt away from the knife, but I didn't use it. "It took us seven days to shoot that scene," Hitchcock told interviewer Francois Truffaut, "and there were 70 camera setups for 45 seconds of footage. Others in the cast included John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Pat Hitchcock (the director's real-life daughter, playing a secretary) and, in miniscule parts, Ted Knight as a police guard and Hitchcock himself.Īudiences saw many things for the first time in Psycho, among them a leading lady (Janet Leigh) clad in only sexy undergarments, a toilet-previously a screen no-no-and the shocking shower scene. Hitchcock considered 20 Century-Fox's Stuart Whitman for the role of Sam Loomis, Leigh's boyfriend, but instead borrowed rising star John Gavin from Universal to play the part. (The Universal facilities were often made available to outside producers in fact, even as the deal to shoot Psycho there was being made, United Artists' Inherit the Wind was in production at the studio.) Joseph Stefano, the man behind TV's The Outer Limits, ultimately was hired to adapt Bloch's bloodcurdling novel.īy the time production began on November 30, 1959, Hitchcock had lined up a solid cast for his comparatively low-budget film: Anthony Perkins, at age 27 a stage and screen veteran, in the role of motel keeper Norman Bates, Janet Leigh as ill-fated lodger Marion Crane, Vera Miles as Leigh's concerned sister and Martin Balsam as doomed detective Milton Arbogast.
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Hitchcock made the film under his long-term producing-directing deal with Paramount, but decided to shoot the film on the Revue-Universal lot where his TV series was shot. Cavanagh, a television writer who had penned the scripts for a number of episodes of TV's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Bloch held out for and got $9500, not aware that the unnamed buyer was directing giant Alfred Hitchcock.Īt first the chore of developing a screenplay was to be handed to James P.
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Bloch wrote in his 1993 autobiography, "I decided to write a novel based on the notion that the man next door may be a monster, unsuspected even in the gossip-ridded microcosm of small-town life." Shortly after the book was published, Bloch had a call from his agent notifying the author that someone from the MCA talent agency wished to buy the movie rights. The granddaddy of today's horror films was based on the novel Psycho by Robert Bloch. A landmark of suspense cinema, this Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece shattered attendance records in 1960 and had people fleeing up the theater aisles. It has been written that no film made before or since has equaled Psycho's ability to scare people out of their wits and leave irremovable splinters of disquiet in their memories.