Alfred Hitchcock's landmark 1960 thriller has lost none of its power to shock, despite its familiar place and frequency of reference within the pop culture firmament. Impulsively fleeing a dead-end job with $40K of her employer's money, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) stops at the Bates Motel for the night. The motel keeper, Norman (Anthony Perkins), seems nice, but his mother is another story. Hitchcock deploys his entire arsenal of suspense-creating skills, honed over four decades of moviemaking, but in surprising, expectation-defying, even iconoclastic ways. Bernard Herrmann's celebrated score remains one of the most powerful examples of the fully integrated use of music in cinema. DIR/PROD Alfred Hitchcock; SCR Joseph Stefano, from the novel by Robert Bloch. U.S., 1960, b&w, 109 min. NOT RATED