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Overview
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Release Date:
25 August 1960 (Brazil)
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Tagline:
A new- and altogether different- screen excitement!!! more
Plot:
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. full summary | full synopsis
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Alimony
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California
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Phoenix Arizona
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 5 wins
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3 nominations
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(140 articles)
Review: A Single Man
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Fan Made: Hitchcock-Themed Dioramas
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(From HeyUGuys. 8 February 2010, 2:00 AM, PST)
Fan Made: Hitchcock-Themed Dioramas
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Hitchcock and Herrmann
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Anthony Perkins | ... | Norman Bates | |
| Vera Miles | ... | Lila Crane | |
| John Gavin | ... | Sam Loomis | |
| Martin Balsam | ... | Milton Arbogast | |
| John McIntire | ... | Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers | |
| Simon Oakland | ... | Dr. Fred Richmond | |
| Vaughn Taylor | ... | George Lowery | |
| Frank Albertson | ... | Tom Cassidy | |
| Lurene Tuttle | ... | Mrs. Chambers | |
| Patricia Hitchcock | ... | Caroline (as Pat Hitchcock) | |
| John Anderson | ... | California Charlie | |
| Mort Mills | ... | Highway Patrol Officer | |
| Janet Leigh | ... | Marion Crane |
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Also Known As:
Wimpy (USA) (fake working title)
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Runtime:
109 min | Germany:108 min (cut)
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1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Chile:14 (re-rating) |
Chile:18 (original rating) |
Germany:12 (re-rating) (2006) |
Portugal:M/12 |
West Germany:16 (original rating) |
Netherlands:12 |
Iceland:16 |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1960) |
Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1969) |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1965) |
South Korea:15 |
Brazil:14 |
Czech Republic:U |
New Zealand:R16 |
USA:TV-PG (TV rating) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Argentina:13 (re-rating) |
Argentina:16 (original rating) |
Australia:M |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
France:-12 (re-release) |
France:-16 |
Israel:16 |
Norway:15 |
Norway:16 (1960) |
Peru:14 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:16 (re-release) |
UK:15 (video rating) (1986) |
UK:X (original rating) |
USA:Approved (certificate #19564) (original rating) |
USA:M (re-rating) (1968) |
USA:R (re-rating) (1984)
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In the murder scene in the shower, we never see the knife actually touching the victim's body.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When the police officer backs in behind Marion's car on shoulder of the highway, no tire tracks from his vehicle are visible in the soft dirt.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Sam Loomis: You never did eat your lunch, did you?
Marion Crane: I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Sam Loomis: Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? Its Friday, anyway - and hot.
Marion Crane: What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?
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Sam Loomis: You never did eat your lunch, did you?
Marion Crane: I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Sam Loomis: Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? Its Friday, anyway - and hot.
Marion Crane: What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?
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Referenced in Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies (2003) (V)
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Robert Bloch wrote the original work, Joseph Stefano adapted it into a tight screenplay but it was Alfred Hitchcock with the extraordinary complicity of Bernard Herrmann who transformed this lurid tale into a classic, horror masterpiece. The score propels us into the moment before the moment arrives provoking the sort of anticipation that verges on the unbearable. The fact that the key scenes have become iconic film moments: copied, imitated, emulated and parodied, have not diminished its impact, not really. The anticipation, underlined by Herrmann's strings, creates a sort of craving for the moment to arrive. That doesn't happen very often. No amount of planning can produce it or re-produce it - otherwise how do you explain the Gus Van Sant version - so, the only possible explanation is an accident, a miraculous film accident and those do happen. Everything falls into place so perfectly that even the things that one may argue are below the smart standard of the film, are needed, the film without every frame is not quite the film. Try to turn away after the climax during Simon Oakland's long explanation. You can't. I couldn't. Partly because you know you'll soon be confronting those eyes, that fly, the car...