Revealing mistake: When Marion is driving her car through the night, she keeps looking at her speedometer. You can clearly see that the gear shift lever is in "park" as she is driving.
Psycho (1960)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Norman's mother had been long dead, her corpse found sitting in a rocking chair in the old house, Norman had dressed up as his mother and committed the murders.
More mistakes in Psycho
Mother: No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!
Norman Bates: Mother, please...!
Question: This is a weird question, but was December 11th 1960 actually on a Friday?
Answer: The film was shot in 1959 and released in 1960, so the reference to this date being on Friday would be correct.
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Answer: No, it was a Sunday. However, December 11th fell on a Friday in 1959, the year before release.
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