A new and altogether different screen excitement!
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
HorrorThrillerMysteryhotelclerkdetectiveshowerarizonamotelhalloweenstolen moneyalter egotaxidermymoneymurder
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Character
Earnest, grave, bleak and meticulous.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
Who loves it, who doesn't
83 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
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Cast
- Anthony PerkinsNorman Bates
- Janet LeighMarion Crane
- Vera MilesLila Crane
- John GavinSam Loomis
- Martin BalsamMilton Arbogast
- John McIntireAl Chambers
- Simon OaklandFred Richman
- Frank AlbertsonTom Cassidy
- Patricia HitchcockCaroline
- Vaughn TaylorGeorge Lowery
Crew
- Alfred HitchcockDirector
- Joseph StefanoScreenplay
- Robert BlochNovel
- John L. RussellDirector of Photography
- Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
- George TomasiniEditor
- Alfred HitchcockProducer
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