The 10 Best Alfred Hitchcock Thrillers From The '50s and '60s
Strangers on a Train (1951) · Dial M for Murder (1954) · Rear Window (1954) · To Catch A Thief (1955) · The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) · Vertigo ( ...
on Robert Bloch's novel of the same name
Hitchcock based Psycho <anchor>on Robert Bloch's novel of the same name</anchor>, which was also based loosely on Ed Gein. Hitchcock paid approximately $9,500 for the rights to the novel and ordered his secretary to buy every single copy of the story available to keep the book's ending a secret. The film is most famous for the pivotal shower scene, one of the best-known sequences in cinema history. The scene ran three minutes, was shot from December 17-23, 1959, and required approximately 78 shots.