Joel McNeeley conducts The Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
1. Prelude 1:55
2. The City 2:12
3. Marion 1:36
4. Marion And Sam 1:52
5. Temptation 2:51
6. Flight 1:07
7. Patrol Car 1:04
8. The Car Lot 1:45
9. The Package 1:31
10. The Rainstorm 3:09
11. Hotel Room 2:04
12. The Window 1:13
13. The Parlor 1:37
14. The Madhouse 1:54
15. The Peephole 3:00
16. The Bathrrom 1:02
17. The Murder 1:03
18. The Body 0:15
19. The Office 1:20
20. The Curtain 1:15
21. The Water 1:46
22. The Car 0:52
23. Cleanup 2:14
24. The Swamp 2:03
25. The Search 0:41
26. The Shadow 0:50
27. Phone Booth 0:53
28. The Porch 1:04
29. The Stairs 2:58
30. The Knife 0:27
31. The Search (B) 1:39
32. The First Floor 2:44
33. Cabin 10 1:07
34. Cabin 1 1:05
35. The Hill 1:03
36. The Bedroom 0:59
37. The Toys 1:01
38. The Cellar 1:06
39. Discovery 0:41
40. Finale 1:32
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known
film director in the world) when he released "Psycho" and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen
thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime
liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it
was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly
disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and
frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given
$40,000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with
the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later,
paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel,
where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the
first guest in weeks, before he regales her with curious stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan
alive who doesn't know what happens next, but while the shower scene is justifiably the film's most famous
sequence, there are dozens of memorable bits throughout this film. The first of a handful of sequels followed
in 1983, while Gus Van Sant's controversial remake, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche, appeared in 1998.
