Psycho

Hitchcock opens this film in his traditional way, including the audience immediately with his cast and his twisting plot. The camera focuses on one building, focusing in on one hotel window, going through it to show Marian Crane, wearing only a bra and slip, her lover Sam Loomis standing over her. From the onset of their conversation we realise that they are having an affair and that Gavin is too poor to get a divorce.
The unhappy Marian returns to her real estate office, where her boss George Lowery agrees to hold $40,000 for a rich blabbermouth client, Tom Cassidy. Suddenly Marian steals the money and decides to make a new life for her. She pays cash for a new car, but she’s too nervous and attracts the attention of a state policeman who follows her and, when catching her asleep in the car, warns her not to sleep along the roadside. Marian drives through the night until she is tired and begins looking for a place to stay.
Spotting the sign for the Bates Hotel, she drives in mee...