Psycho

Psycho starts out as a Film Noir-style crime thriller centering around Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a secretary at a Phoenix real estate office who embezzles a large amount of cash from her employer's client and sets off for Fairvale, California, where she plans to hook up with her lover and begin a new life. After two days of driving - plus an unnerving encounter with a highway patrolman and a hasty exchange of cars - she stops for the night at the desolate, out-of-the-way Bates Motel, run by nervous Momma's Boy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who lives with his elderly but domineering mother in an ominous Victorian house behind the motel.

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