A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Stuart Whitman was Hitchcock's first choice for the role of Sam Loomis.
California Charlie:
It's the first time the customer ever high-pressured the salesman. I figure roughly... your car plus seven hundred dollars.
Marion Crane:
Seven hundred dollars?
California Charlie:
You always got time to argue money, huh?
Fairville on the 19th and 20th of December shows no signs of Christmas.
Opening credits prologue: PHOENIX, ARIZONA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER THE ELEVENTH
TWO FORTY-THREE P.M.
English
$32,000,000 (USA)