Shock and Awe

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

🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hitchcock’s nightmares haunt him as he readies Psycho for release. He tussles with the censors to keep his precious shower scene - the one which does or does not contain nudity, depending on which censor’s opinion you’re listening to. Hitch maps out an elaborate and unprecedented publicity strategy and in the process reinvents the way America goes to the movies. He suffers a rash of scathing reviews from big name critics, one of whom calls Psycho “a very minor work.” Then, Psycho opens - and the world will never be the same. Hitchcock marvels at the lines around every block all across the country. Perhaps his fears were all wrong...or maybe this will be the huge success from which he will never recover.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Psycho, add free on Amazon music.
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0:08.0	From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is part five of Inside Psycho. April 17, 1961.
0:35.0	1961.
0:38.0	Hollywood royalty, all in one room and at their
0:42.4	splendid best.
0:44.0	Black ties, shimmering gowns, this is the night of the 33rd Academy Awards.
0:50.4	In his seat at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, the celebrated director Alfred Hitchcock
0:57.0	is squirming. He's nominated for an Oscar for Best Director and the prize is just about to be announced.
1:07.0	Geno Lulla Bridgeta is reading the names of the nominees.
1:10.7	Who else is nominated? It's not clear.
1:15.0	And now, she has handed the envelope.
1:18.0	Hitch feels the perspiration beat up over his lip. This is the moment he's been
1:25.9	waiting for all his career. And the winner is, she looks out over the audience.
1:35.0	It could see what came next, but could anybody else?
1:40.0	Could his friends, his peers, possibly see her expression shifting from broad smile to
1:50.0	to something else? Hitchcock new images, he knew pictures, and this picture, subtle as it was, said,
1:58.0	disgust.
2:00.0	And the winner is Alfred Hitchcock for Psycho. Hitch rises to his feet and walks up the steps to the podium.
2:17.0	That's when he notices it.
2:25.0	Nobody is clapping.
2:29.0	His aunt at his Oscar, the first he has ever won,
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