... ;Psycho", by Robert Bloch. "Psycho" is an American psychological thriller horror; the centre of this film is based around a secretary, Marion Crane, who embezzles forty thousand dollars cash from her boss's client, Mr Tom Cassidy. Marion flees the town of Phoenix and heads towards the town of Fairvale to find happiness with Sam, during this journey Marion finds herself checking into Bates Motel ... and becoming a victim of the motels manager Norman Bates, a schizophrenic and disturbed man. Throughout this film the themes of 'good and evil' are explored through Hitchcock's use of use...

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... they imposed severe and unusual punishments upon him, as what they considered to be discipline. One of these incidents scarred him for life. As punishment for arriving home late one night, young Alfred's father had a policeman friend lock the boy up in a cell for five minutes, "in order to teach him where naughty little boys who come home after 9 o'clock would eventually end ... up." (Phillips 27). Throughout his career he used the innocent man being arrested and imprisoned in his films, and claimed that forever after he ... car for a new one and leaves Phoenix heading towards Californ...

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... . http://galleries.aebn.net/beta2/index.cfm/fa/gallery/genre/GAYTWINKS/clip/0009/refid/AEBN-000794/tid/581/layout/mgp_layout1 Psycho takes place in Phoenix, Arizona and is the story of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and her desperate attempt to save her husband-to-be, Sam Loomis (John Gavin) from debts that are preventing them from having a happy marriage. When Marion ... a real-estate office, she sees this as an opportunity to end all woes. She takes the money and leaves town without a trace. After a few days on the run, Marion ends up at an isolated motel which plays a major role in the s...

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