Notes:
1. Marion Crane's '56 Ford plate number - ANL-709 ........Janet Leigh July 9th.
2. Marion Crane's '57 Ford plate number - NFB-418 ........Norman Francis Bates April 18th.
As Marion drove up the highway towards Bakersfield the rains came and Bernard Hermann's music kept in time with the windshield wipers----foreshadowing anyone? Up ahead the sign for Bates Motel appeared so she pulled in. I might note that they made a mistake by leaving a floodlight on on the left of the picture, but it's only seen for a second or two. They left it in the movie. Marion, (Janet Leigh), Gets out of her '57 Ford and knocks on the office door, leaving the car and wipers running. After knocking and blowing the horn she gets back in and turns off the wipers and motor. (She might not have knocked). Soon Anthony Perkins comes down from the old mansion on the hill and lets her in the office to sign in. Ricardo Gomez, from San Francisco was a big help on these finer details. We talk quite often about this movie along with the Zodiac case. MK-Zodiac.com.
Marion and Norman talk for a few minutes and she signs in as Marie Samuels, (her lover's name is Sam). Norman is immediately attracted to Janet Leigh and assigns her to cabin #1. He said it was closer in case she wanted anything. They both go into the cabin and he asks her to have a small supper with him and she agrees. He says he'll be back with his (trusty umbrella). Up at the house she hears his mother's scolding voice thru the motel room window. (Mother is played by Virginia Gregg.) He comes back and they decide to eat in the office parlor. The conversation runs thru all of our human emotions but there is a darkness coming on the scene that we all can feel. Norman uses the saying that "we all go a little mad sometimes" which is used in the following movies of Psycho. Meanwhile, the $40,000 sits on a lampstand in cabin #1. This conversation is one of the greatest in all of Hollywood movies. Marion is tired and decides to go to bed after a shower and therefor we come to the murder scene of which Janet Leigh is most famous for in 1960.
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