PSYCHO (1960)

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, her impulses take 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 start 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. Little does Marion Crane know that the psychologically disturbed Norman Bates is about to turn her life into a living nightmare and the lives of her lover and sister and a persistent detective into a cat and mouse game with a psychotic killer. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam and John McIntire.