By the time Universal Pictures released Psycho in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already one of the most famous directors in ...
"Psycho" launched a thousand phobias of showers ... of the year (behind "Spartacus") and the fifth-highest-grossing black-and-white film of all time. Its stars — Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins ...
He chose to shoot in black and white to keep the budget down. Remember, Psycho came after his big glossy technicolor epics of the ‘50s. One would think any studio would give him carte blanche.