Psycho (1960)

3 deliberate mistakes - chronological order

★★★★★

Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Deliberate mistake: When Norman picks up Marion's supposedly naked body to carry it to his trunk, a bra is visible through the shower curtain. Gus Van Sant included this goof in his 1998 remake.

Deliberate mistake: Mrs. Bates is in a rocking chair, but in the close-up that reveals her face her position smoothly rotates as though she were in a swivel chair.

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Deliberate mistake: After being stabbed, Arbogast falls down the stairs in an impossible manner. He is standing tilted backwards all the way down the stairs.

Mistakes

Revealing mistake: When Marion is driving her car through the night, she keeps looking at her speedometer. You can clearly see that the gear shift lever is in "park" as she is driving.

More mistakes in Psycho

Mother: No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!
Norman Bates: Mother, please...!

More quotes from Psycho

Trivia

Trivia: Psycho was the first American movie to show a toilet, and hear one flushing - both viewed as inappropriate in that era.

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Questions

Question: This is a weird question, but was December 11th 1960 actually on a Friday?

Answer: No, it was a Sunday. However, December 11th fell on a Friday in 1959, the year before release.

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Answer: The film was shot in 1959 and released in 1960, so the reference to this date being on Friday would be correct.

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