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Title: A career best. But why no Oscar for Perkins?
Review: Alfred Hitchcock wired Anthony Perkins to apologise on behalf of his film-making colleagues, after Perkins was denied an Oscar for his portrayal of Norman Bates. Perkins's performance is indeed remarkable, mature and haunting.The shower sequence is a masterpiece, but I think the scene in Bates's parlour where he and Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) discuss life - including Mother - is a poignant and brilliant performance by Perkins.Perkins became tragically typecast, but he transformed Robert Bloch's ugly-mannered Bates into a youthfull and tender-natured man. Psycho is an outright classic.
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