Article posted: 11/22/2012 6:00 AM

Revealing story behind ‘Psycho’ fun, but has a few hitches

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"Hitchcock" would be more intriguing had it delved into the specifics of making "Psycho." John J. McLaughlin's screenplay plays like the work of a Hollywood committee. It's an amusing but standard story about a misunderstood genius who puts it on the line (Hitchcock put up his own money to make "Psycho") against incredible odds (the Production Code was conservative in 1960) to win the day.