Psycho

SmokeScreeners Rating:

Year of Release: 1960

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Distributor: Paramount

The film was reviewed by Dr. Barry Hummel from QDREF on 6/1/2009.

Additional comments: There were only two smoking scenes in the film, but both were prominent... and unnecessary. One featured a nervous Lila Crane (Vera Miles) making the decision to go to the Bates Motel to look for her sister. The other scene occurs as the psychiatrist explains Norman Bates' mental illness; just as he finishes, he lights a cigarette.