Revealing mistake: When Marion is driving her car through the night, she keeps looking at her speedometer. You can clearly see that the gear shift lever is in "park" as she is driving.
Psycho (1960)
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Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
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The original version with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins as a desperate woman fleeing with $40K to a old, off the road motel where a very lonely and dangerous Norman Bates festers and worships his mother while lusting and fearing others. His dark designs turn to murder in this Horror/thriller by Alfred Hitchcock and, though dated and in black and white, Psycho still scares with the best of them. Beware the basement or the shower, and especially "mother."
More mistakes in Psycho
Norman Bates: She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.
Trivia: Although it lasts for only 45 seconds on screen, the stabbing scene in the shower took seven days to shoot and used 70 different camera angles.
Question: This is a weird question, but was December 11th 1960 actually on a Friday?
Answer: The film was shot in 1959 and released in 1960, so the reference to this date being on Friday would be correct.
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Answer: No, it was a Sunday. However, December 11th fell on a Friday in 1959, the year before release.
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