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Old 09-26-2009, 10:55 AM   #4846
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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket View Post
Psycho - Rewatched this one for the umteenth time. Still love it. Robert Osborne introduced it on TCM and noted that the film's score was all strings. I guess I hadn't noticed that before. Pretty cool. I also chuckled at one line of dialogue Janet Leigh says at the beginning, "For this, we have to meet in secrecy to be secretive". Something like that. Funny.
It's filled with lines like that. "Mother -- what is the phrase? -- isn't quite herself today."

Herrmann's all-strings score is one of his masterpieces. Cue 17 -- "The Murder" -- is still used as a terror cue.

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