Psycho (1/12) Movie CLIP - The Bates Motel (1960) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Consumed with thoughts of her misdeeds, Marion (Janet Leigh) comes upon the Bates Motel.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he regales her with curious stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next, but while the shower scene is justifiably the film's most famous sequence, there are dozens of memorable bits throughout this film. The first of a handful of sequels followed in 1983, while Gus Van Sant's controversial remake, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche, appeared in 1998.

CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1960)
Cast: Janet Leigh
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriters: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch

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[matthewrocca]

This scene is to me ALMOST as scary as the shower scene itself (almost, not quite). This whole sequence feels almost like a nightmare, with the voices echoing, the brilliant score getting louder, Marion's dark little smirk, and the pouring rain...and the way the rain replaces the score at the end. Just brilliant. 

[harrypotterfreak]

Can't believe that's Jamie Lee Curtis's mother. So beautiful and the music is brilliant.

[dongato]

Never seen anyone deliver such a perfect performance without saying a word and barely moving.

[LEELOLKH]

I love how confident she was about her beauty and that makes her much more beautiful

[mandoblu]

Janet Leigh did such a great job as Marion. That grin she makes while driving was so "psychotic".

[llove]

For 1960 I just have to point this out, her eyeliner is on point! 👌

[johndoe]

The way the movie is shot, so influential and ahead of its time. Hitchcock's films in general were miles ahead of the curve.

[OlanR]

I really do admire Marion's expressions. It does show how the way she took the money is starting to haunt her in some ways but was still willing to do it anyways to get away from her job and just get out of town for a day or two. This is certainly a classic horror film with some really talented actors!

[ab]

Wonderful acting... her facial expressions say so much

[tiredlawdog]

I had forgotten how absolutely beautiful this woman was.

[MVR]

I love the narration and her expressions. Janet Leigh was wonderful.. I often wondered if the windshield wipers in the pouring rain was a symbol/omen of her eventual fate

[jonhyoldboy]

1:42 is it just me or she smiles like Norman smiles at the final scene ??

[Bates]

The greatest movie ever made, nothing can beat the original, no matter how many sequals, remakes, parodies you throw at it, the original is always the last one standing, sequals were ok. The 90's had one of the best films. Nothing can beat a masterpiece.

[RobertDillman]

Hitch was great because he broke the rules. Rule breakers don't get awards.

[Cinemabuff]

She is beautiful, I never noticed that before, and this scene with the music, and the paranoia, and her facial expressions, and her not being able to see through windshield is good movie making. And especially the scene when she approaches the Bates Motel, with the lights of the sign on, and it says, "Vacancy", in the night rain, just gives me a sense of wonder and scare.

[roelbrauhaus]

and i dont understand, why Hitchcock never won the Acadamy Award

[limited]

Has to be one of the best movies ever made.

[applefan]

The suspense of this scene is absolutely phenomenal!

[andrewbooth]

There are so many highlights in this film. Never bettered.The score was superb, the actors outstanding, the build up of
tension.I never get tired of
Watching this.

[vegetasolo]

Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann, that he doubled the composer's salary to $34, 501. Hitchcock later said, "Thirty-three percent of the effect of Psycho was due to the music."