When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Keywords:
Hotel
Clerk
Shower
Arizona
Motel
Halloween
Stolen money
Taxidermy
Money
Secretary
Whodunit
Corpse
Murderer
Theft
Mental illness
Private detective
Missing person
Psycho
Voyeurism
Voyeur
Oedipus complex
Double identity
Proto-slasher
Mother son relationship
Birds
Anxious
Dramatic
Woman on the run
Corruptibility
Confused identities
Human vulnerabilities
Movie tag line: "A new— and altogether different— screen excitement!!!"
Character: Norman Bates
Character: Marion Crane
Character: Lila Crane
Character: Sam Loomis
Character: Private Det. Milton Arbogast