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Janet Leigh in Psycho

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Psycho’s Shower Scene: How Hitchcock Upped the Terror—and Fooled the Censors

Extreme close-ups. Fast-motion reverse shots. And flesh-stabbing sound effects made with a knife and a casaba melon.

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Alfred Hitchcock

9 Things You May Not Know About Alfred Hitchcock

Check out nine surprising facts about the man known as the big screen’s “Master of Suspense.”

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1941

Cary Grant stars in Hitchcock’s “Suspicion”

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