She Wouldn’t Even Harm a Fly

Inside Psycho

Wondery

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Vera Miles, Norman Bates, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Documentary, Film History

4.5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Psycho fever overtakes America, and Alfred Hitchcock is suddenly a very rich man. And with this stunning success comes one haunting fear: What will I do for an encore? That question plagues Hitchcock for the rest of his career, through only six more films, a humiliating defeat at the Academy Awards, the specter of young directors vaulting past the old master, and a final appearance to accept a life achievement award that’s too little and too late. Meanwhile, critical admiration for Psycho grows, and the film’s legacy spawns sequels and remakes and a web of pop culture signposts, even today. We leave you in the cellar of terrifying old house on a lonely hill. Do you hear something?

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Psycho, add free on Amazon Music, download the app today.
0:09.0	The following contains mature content. You've been warned. From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is
0:18.4	part six, the final part of Inside Psycho. The line stretched for miles.
0:45.0	Not only at this drive-in, but at many around the country.
0:52.0	Police were called in to handle the gridlock. In Chicago, a freak
0:59.7	thunderstorm caught so many psycho ticket holders outside in line, they threatened to tear apart the theater unless the manager let them inside.
1:09.0	Hitchcock had an idea.
1:12.0	Buy them umbrellas.
1:14.0	And that's what the theater did,
1:17.0	thus guaranteeing front-page headlines
1:20.0	in the Chicago Tribune.
1:24.0	Among audiences, psycho was praised and condemned in equal measure,
1:28.0	but most important, it was talked about everywhere, by everyone.
1:35.0	Psychos set attendance records around the world.
1:38.6	It grossed over $9 million in the US
1:40.9	and more than $6 million internationally. Combined, that's more than 6 million internationally combined.
1:43.0	That's more than 120 million today.
1:46.0	In 1960, that was second only to Ben Her.
1:50.0	But psycho was far more profitable.
1:55.0	Psycho would go on to become Hitchcock's all-time top moneymaker.
2:00.0	Indeed, no film had ever before boasted so many return viewings. People came at the beginning
2:07.0	and left at the end again and again and again.
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