First rate thriller!!

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2004)

long one of my favorite thriller-dramas...made with that elusive quality rarely seen in today's films...effective subtleties...remember that Hitchcock cut costs where he could with this film....score(eliminating all instruments except strings),meager sets, but of course these all had the unforeseen benefit for the film....acting is exceptional with good close-ups of actors expressions(thinking and feeling aloud)...look for the last fade-out of Perkin's face as he sits in the police holding cell, thinking in his mother's voice and smiling wickedly into the camera...there is a brief but umistaken skull overlay on his face, a nice chilling touch at the end of the movie just before the car of Marion Crane is seen being pulled out of the bog at the movie's end. Pure genius!