When Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh, Touch of Evil) steals $40,000 from her employer’s client in the hopes of being able to run off with her married lover, Sam Loomis (John Gavin, Imitation of Life), she goes on the run. After driving day and night, and sleeping in her car one evening, she checks into a remote motel off the highway. There, she has a chance encounter with the man who runs the motel, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins, Catch-22, The Trial), a timid, nervous soul under the domination of his beloved mother. Featuring a twist that shocked audiences in 1960, not to mention the infamous “shower scene,” Psycho remains the paragon of horror thrillers nearly sixty years after its initial release.

This film is screening to continue the great Hitchcock celebration that is Kent Jones’ new documentary, Hitchcock/Truffaut, which we will be playing for one week, beginning Feb. 12th.