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I just received my set yesterday. There was a card right at the top as I opened the rather big, heavy box with a typical late 1950s style postcard stating, in English, "When in California...visit Bates Motel". Lovely color photo of the quaint little place with, I believe, Marion Crane's car...

For me, conclusive beyond reasonable doubt, smoking gun, finger print and DNA evidence is the inclusion of a screenshot photo of one of the most revealing frames of Janet Leigh removing her bra in the section of the HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT book where they discuss PSYCHO. It is right there in line...

It is great to hear about current Universal execs and staff taking pro-active measures to put an original, uncut version of it together again, even if not yet for a wider revival screening release or larger home video market. It gives me hope that the original, uncut version might someday, and...

I would be surprised about that as well. However, the introduction of video tape movies came so close to the time when Universal began to distribute only the cut version, I always wondered if there wasn't a brief overlap where at least one USA tape of the original uncut version got released into...

Wow, that is a really old VHS/Beta tape of it. Do you know what year that was produced and distributed? And, most important, which version of the scenes in question are on that tape? The photo looks like a reproduction of an early re-release theater poster.

I ordered it last night, too. I cannot read German, but I assume the text states explicitly that this version of PSYCHO is the original, uncut, "as seen in theaters during its initial release" version. Which is something I have not seen on any other home video package graphic or on any revival...

Ah, thanks for the reminder. Then the reason we don't notice a glitch in the music there is because nothing is cut from the middle of a sequence. The music fades out right along with the visual. In the peephole scene, the music is mostly sustained notes. So it is a very subtle but, imo, still...

It is possible something else was happening. The edited version master was handy. It was clearly family-friendly enough to have been shown on commercial television so no threat of theme park attraction-related controversy, no threat of much controversy at all. Sales were fine and since so much...

In another thread that touched on this subject, one of the first things I mentioned was a slight but still noticeable glitch in Herrmann's score during the peephole scene, a tell-tale sign that something had been cut right there. I don't think there is music accompanying the other two edited...

As was mentioned already, the publication of that book was before Universal decided to authorize only edited versions of it for theatrical re-release, before widely available home video versions and so on. I don't think either of them had any idea such an ongoing distribution of the edited...

If I may rhapsodize a bit more on the importance of those missing seconds, particularly the peephole shot leading right up to the very frame before we see Janet Leigh lower her bra to reveal her breasts. Because I believe it is totally relevant to how the subsequent shower scene affected you and...

It was my understanding that there was a version originally edited for a local New York television channel screening sometime around 1968 but was pulled at the last minute and not shown on the scheduled date due to a recent stabbing death of an elected official's daughter (sorry, I don't...

I think Joan Harrison's memory of actually working on the movie holds more weight, too. That is why I doubt she was not confused about whether the "tidying up" that she refers to in the interview was in relation to content involving Janet Leigh's slip and not content involving Janet Leigh's bra...

IMO, the Making of Psycho documentary added to the confusion about whether or not Hitchcock edited out the part of Leigh unhooking her bra before the original theatrical release. I love that documentary, but I honestly believe they went wrong on this particular issue. In the documentary, Joan...

Oh, I think the difference in our emotional state by almost seeing (along with Norman) Janet Leigh's breasts compared with only seeing her reach for the waistband of her slip is tremendous. Hitchcock put the original theatrical audience in a state of shame for being brought right up to the frame...

That is exactly my memory of it when I saw PSYCHO several times in the early 1960s in the USA. And I firmly believe the original, uncut theatrical version IS more powerful and disturbing for having those shots in them. That is why Hitchcock put them there in the first place. I will posit a...