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The book had Mary Crane from Dallas, Texas as the leading lady. Since a real Mary Crane exists, Alfred Hitchcock changed her into Marion Crane from Phoenix, Arizona. The first movie starred Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Martin BalsamMartin Balsam (1914-1996) was an American character actor. He studied dramatics at the New School in New York City and then served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1947 he was selected by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg to be a player in the Act, John Gavin , Vera MilesVera Miles (b. August 23, 1929) is a American actress. She began her career as a beauty queen and, as a result, earned a minor part in Two Tickets to Broadway ( 1951). She posed for cheesecake photos, and married her leading man from Tarzan's Hidden Jungl, and Simon Oakland .

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The movie's first scene, risque in its day, takes place in a cheap hotel room and shows Marion Crane (Leigh) and her boyfriend Sam Loomis (Gavin) in their undergarments after a Friday afternoon tryst. Marion returns to work and receives $40,000 in cash from her boss to deposit at the bank. Instead of depositing the money she leaves town with it with the intention of asking Sam to marry her. Just across the state line in California, she trades her car and some cash with a new car because she believes she is being followed; on the way back to Tucson she misses a turnoff and eventually ends up on a nearly-deserted road. This road was originally the main route, so it has an old motel on it. She stops in at the Bates motel, run by Norman Bates (Perkins) because it is raining and she keeps drowsing off.

Although the motel receives few visitors, Norman keeps it open to give him some relief from taking care of his ill mother. Norman's other hobby is taxidermyTaxidermy ( Greek for the arrangement of the skin is the art of mounting or reproducing animals for display or study. This is a practice generally done with vertebrates, but occasionally with other less-developed species. Especially over the last century,: birds are his favorite subject.

It turns out that Bates' mother is not ill physically, but mentally. She stabs Marion to death in the famous shower scene (with its now trademark score by Bernard HerrmannBernard Herrmann ( June 29, 1911 December 24, 1975) was a composer, best known for his film scores, particularly for Alfred Hitchcock-directed films. He also wrote the scores for Citizen Kane Cape Fear and Taxi Driver as well as for the original radio bro, featuring the screeching violins). Unlike Mary from the novel, Marion is not decapitated in the scene. Bates is horrified when he finds the corpse, but cleans up as if he has done this several times before.

The rest of the film deals with the search for Marion. Marion's sister Lila (Miles) and boyfriend hire a private detective, Milton Arbogast (Balsam), to find her. Arbogast traces her to the Bates Motel and eventually meets the same fate as Marion. Lila and Sam next go to the motel to follow up when the private detective disappears. Lila goes up to the basement of the Bates' adjacent home only to find the corpse of Bates' mother. Only at that moment is the killer revealed to be Norman Bates himself (cross-dressed in his mother's clothing, complete with wig).

At the end of the film a forensic psychiatrist (Oakland) explains to the police, Lila and Sam that Bates' mother is really dead and that Bates periodically assumes her personality; the dominant half of his personality is his re-imagining of his mother. The Bates personality has no idea that his mother is dead, so has no knowledge of "her" crimes. The last scene shows Bates totally taken over by his "mother."

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