3/12/2024 0 Comments Film semi lies 1998US$350,000 in 2020 money and sets off for Fairvale, California, where she plans to hook up with her lover and begin a new life. Psycho starts out as a Film Noir-style crime thriller centering around Marion Crane ( Janet Leigh), a secretary at a Phoenix real estate office who embezzles a large amount of cash from her employer's client note US$40,000, which adjusted for inflation would be the equivalent of approx. The story, adapted by Hitchcock and screenwriter Joseph Stefano note who would later produce the sci-fi anthology series The Outer Limits (1963) from the novel by Robert Bloch published the year before, has not one but two major plot twists at the time, Hitchcock went to considerable lengths to keep them a secret (including one print ad pleading, "Don't give away the ending it's the only one we have"), but these days, most people already know about both thanks to Pop-Cultural Osmosis, even if they know nothing else about the film.
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