A true directors masterpiece and an actors dream!

Though like other people I do have other favorites. Yet,’Psycho’, from whenever I first saw it,to this day,I’m amazed! Why?

Not because that it is a great screenplay by Joseph Stefano, that led us through one story then shocked us thirty minutes later to the follow another plot.

That Alfred Hitchcock did not waste one second of film frame in this classic from the beginning titles,to the end. I personally or anyone who loves film, could study each cut that he did and not find a flaw or that empty story hole.

Mr. Hitchcock let the camera be the storyteller which to this day has not been matched. Alfred Hitchcock, who shot a couple of color films prior was very smart to film in black and white. It gave it more depth to both the great characters( as like the unreplacable perfect, Norman Bates, Anthony Perkins)and beautiful settings that was greatly photographed by John L. Russell. Also, I can’t forget the great score by Bernard Herrmann.

Thank you for giving a true masterpiece that can never be duplicated…Alfred Hitchcock was a directors, director… that knew what the film camera was meant to be used for. Which is a lost art in today’s world.
By: Paul Manijak