"Psycho" Rants and Raves Trivia Quiz

Answer: "Insect or man, I say death should always be painless."

The customer is inspecting a can of pesticide. She is played by Helen Wallace who appears on such TV series as "Hazel", "Rawhide", "Gunsmoke", and "Dr. Kildare". She has also served Rod Serling on his "Twilight Zone".

Answer: "Run out and eat it!"

Perhaps Bob doesn't know of Sam's affair but Sam couldn't have his employee involved in whatever else was going on. Lila and Marion Crane are interesting counterparts. Lila is headstrong and direct. Marion is gentle and mysterious. However there is drive in both women that is used one way for creating a problem, and another way for solving a problem.

Answer: "One of you better tell me what's going on and tell me fast!"

Lila is being very vague with Sam. When Arbogast shows up, it all becomes too much for Sam to take in, and he is tired of being left in the dark. He has a hard time believing Marion could do such a thing. He also suggests to Lila that she may have been in a hold up or hospitalized. He is told by Arbogast that she was seen leaving town by her employer.

Arbogast is played by Martin Balsam, who landed on the original jury in "Twelve Angry Men" and was a suspect in "Murder on the Orient Express". Sadly, he is no longer with us. He passed away in 1996.

Answer: The nuts and bolts

Arbogast also assumes that where Marion's boyfriend is may be where she wound up at. This is the reason for Arbogast going to Fairvale. He also figures she isn't alone because "Someone always sees a girl with 40,000 dollars." Slight scene reference here too:
In scene 1, Sam suggests to Marion: "Yeah, and come live with me in the back of a hardware store in Fairvale."

Answer: "This is the first place that looks like it is hiding from the world."

Arbogast also plays on words and tells Norman his eyes are "blurry with neon." After they are inside, in the middle of the interrogation, Norman remembers he has to turn on his own neon sign.

Answer: "It's kind of a, I don't know, creepy smell."

Norman changes linens once a week to get rid of the mustiness. It is unusual that Arbogast doesn't take Norman up on his offer to go to the cabins. Perhaps the sleuth would have found evidence that later surfaced when Sam and Lila visit the grounds. It seems he prefers to have his investigation cut short.

Answer: "It's not a slur on your manhood."

Norman is really panicking at that moment and knows that Arbogast must be stopped from going into his house. Norman chooses the wrong words though when he tells the detective that Marion didn't fool his mother, as it only encourages Arbogast to pay him a second visit. Norman smiles as Arbogast drives away thinking he has gotten rid of him.

Answer: "I'm not entirely satisfied."

Arbogast decides to return to the motel and enter the house to question the mother. This cast has some guts, even if Norman doesn't. Sam has secret meetings in old hotel rooms. Marion takes the money and runs and sleeps on the side of the road. Arbogast returns to badger an invalid and makes gel aspic. Lila wants to bust in on an interrogation. How dare Marion take that shower curtain with her? What a legendary controversy! Hitchcock throws everything but the kitchen sink in his content.

Answer: "Our friend Sam Loomis didn't know Marion was here."

Arbogast gives her a time frame of an hour or less on his return to the hardware store with some news for Lila. Lila repeats this time frame to Sam at the store when Arbogast doesn't show and she is worried. If Sam didn't wait so long, maybe he could have saved the poor detective from an incriminating slash. So much for changing the course of the movie.

Answer: "Patience doesn't run in my family, Sam."

Sam winds up going in her place. He hollers and hollers for Arbogast at the motel but Arbogast and his car are already immersed in the swamp around the corner. Norman is lurking there and refuses to show himself. He is peculiarly basking in the charade.