The 1960 film that opens in a small town where a real-estate office employee runs off with a bag of money is titled "Psycho". In Phoenix, Arizona, a former real-estate secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), is on the lam after she has stolen $40,000 from her prior employer. She did this so she could run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin).

While trying to get away, she is overcome by exhaustion and a heavy rainstorm finds her traveling on the back roads to avoid the police. She decides to stop for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel. She meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). He is a young man who has an interest in taxidermy; he is, over and above anything else, a guy in a difficult relationship with his mother.

"Psycho" is a psychological horror film that was directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. It was written by Joseph Stefano and stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam. The film was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. Alfred Hitchcock is also the individual who decided to produce the movie. Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures distributed the film with its big release in September 1960. "Psycho" has now become a recognizable film in cinemas everywhere in the world. It is arguably considered Hitchcock's best-known film.

The film was able to gross $50 million at the box office on a production budget of just $806,947 US dollars.

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