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Auction History Result F448 PSYCHO 8 lobby cards R65 Leigh, Perkins,Hitchcock Date Sold 3/30/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 1965 Re-release Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (measure 11" x 14") (Learn More) Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) psychotic killer horror thriller ("The master of suspense creates a new and altogether different screen excitement!!!"; "It is required that you see Psycho from the beginning!"; "The master of suspense moves his cameras into the icy blackness of the unexplored!"; "A new - and altogether different - screen excitement!!!"; "The master suspense-showman creates something new - and altogether different - in screen excitement!!!"; "Alfred Hitchcock's new and altogether different screen excitement!"; "The screen's master of suspense moves his cameras into the icy blackness of the unexplored..."; "Screenplay by Joseph Stefano"; based on the novel by Robert Bloch; note that Tony Palladino originally created the classic Psycho title design for the book jacket, and this lettering was purchased along with the film rights, and used on movie posters) starring Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates), Vera Miles (as Lila Crane), John Gavin (as Sam Loomis), Martin Balsam (as Detective Arbogast), John McIntire (as Sheriff Chambers), Janet Leigh (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; "as Marion Crane"), Mort Mills (as the Highway Patrol Officer), and Patricia Hitchcock (the director's daughter, in a small role) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a very unusual set! Three of the cards (#1, #2, and #6) are printed on an entirely different quality of paper than the other 5 cards. Yet in every other respect all of the cards are identical. The three cards in question are all printed on a glossy paper that is glossy front and back, and is whiter than the other five cards (which have darkened over time). But I do NOT think there is any chance those three are reproductions! The eight cards came from one source, and all of them have similar creases, minor stains, pinholes, and staple holes, indicating they were used together at a single theater. My best guess is that there was an extra demand for these lobby cards (usually reissues do not play in many theaters, so they might not have printed very many), and maybe so many theaters wanted to re-show Psycho that they had to print up a second batch of cards (or maybe the cards were printed simultaneously at two separate locations. I've seen this with one-sheets of films from the 1960s and early 1970s (where there is both a glossy version and a "flat version" from a single theater, but I have never before seen it with lobby cards! But please do not bid on this card if this oddity would bother you! Condition: very good. creases, smudges, stains, and pinholes around the edges of the cards, and to a lesser extent, within the image, but truly none of them are all that major or distracting. Card #1 (the close-up of Leigh and Gavin) was folded down the middle at one time and card #3 (the "house card") had water stains across the bottom center of the back of the card that are slightly visible from the front. Learn More about condition grades 
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