TV Guide: Anthony Perkins

Listing: Psycho

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Sat Oct 25 08:00 PM TCM

Listing: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:15:00 -0400

Mon Oct 20 06:15 AM HBOSGe

Listing: Murder on the Orient Express

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:20:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 06:20 AM MOMAXe

Listing: Psycho III

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 03:00 AM CINEMAX

Listing: Psycho II

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:05:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 01:05 AM CINEMAX

Video: The Tin Star - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:44:45 -0400

An experienced bounty hunter (Henry Fonda) helps a young sheriff (Anthony Perkins) learn the meaning of his badge in Anthony Mann's The Tin Star (1957).

Video: Goodbye Again (1961) - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:23:26 -0400

Ingrid Bergman trades Yves Montand for young Anthony Perkins in the Parisian romance Goodbye Again (1961) with fashions by Christian Dior.

Video: Psycho -- (Movie Clip) Pre-Shower

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:13:09 -0400

Norman (Anthony Perkins) observes Marion (Janet Leigh) through his peep-hole, as she proceeds toward her fateful shower scene in director Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, 1960.

Video: International Velvet - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:32:59 -0400

Captain Johnson (Anthony Perkins) proves how well he can ride over the feelings of his horse-racing students in this scene from International Velvet (1978).

Video: Fear Strikes Out -- (A TCM Promo)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:28:53 -0400

Anthony Perkins appears as the troubled Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes Out (1957), one of The Essentials, hosted by Robert Osborne and Carrie Fisher.

Video: Fear Strikes Out - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:28:52 -0400

Major League star Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) fights to save his sanity in Fear Strikes Out (1957).

Video: Desire Under The Elms - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:27:35 -0400

A fiery immigrant (Sophia Loren) falls in love with her aging husband's brooding young son (Anthony Perkins) in Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under The Elms (1958).

Video: The Matchmaker - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:07:05 -0400

Shirley Booth plays Dolly Levi in the pre-musical version of Hello, Dolly!, The Matchmaker (1958) co-starring Anthony Perkins and Shirley Maclaine.

Video: Crimes Of Passion

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:55:04 -0400

Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) is a cold, workaholic sportswear designer, divorced and dedicated only to her job. Once strapped into that role, Joanna looks for an out and finds it by donning a wig and hitting the pavement as a $50/trick hooker named China Blue. Explicit scenes show her at work on her night job, including a long S and M segment with a policeman. While making money as China Blue, Joanna runs into a menacing, fanatic preacher (Anthony Perkins) who is out to save her from this life of sin, but in the meantime, he is also busy watching nude girly shows. As China Blue and the sexually ambivalent Reverend heat up their relationship, he becomes difficult to read: is this psycho reverend a killer? While China Blue is plying her trade, Bobby Grady (John Laughlin) has finally realized after 12 years of marriage that his wife Amy (Annie Potts) is frigid and just as he has this remarkably delayed insight, he is assigned by Joanna's boss to find out if she is stealing designs or not. By tracking Joanna, B

Video: Mahogany

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:02:02 -0400

Directed by Berry Gordy, Jr. as a vehicle for his star Diana Ross, Mahogany traces the life of a poor girl who makes it in the fashion world (first as a model, then designer) and deserts her boyfriend (Billy Dee Williams) in the meantime, hooking up instead with a photographer (Anthony Perkins). The song Do You Know When You're Going To (Gerry Goffin/Michael Masser) was Oscar-nominated. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide.

Video: Trial, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:47:41 -0400

Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an unfathomable genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story in clear, precise fashion. Sometimes, as in such films as Touch of Evil, Welles' spotty storytelling skills can be forgiven in the light of the excellent visuals. In other cases, as in his 1962 adaptation of Kafka's {-The Trial}, Welles'style comes across as empty virtuosity, precious and petulant when it should be profound. Anthony Perkins plays Joseph K, a man condemned for an unnamed crime in an unnamed country. Seeking justice, Joseph K is sucked into a labyrinth of bureaucracy (Welles once described the character as being a little bureaucrat himself, who deserves to be punished. This is never clearly expressed in the finished film). Along the way, he becomes involved with three women -- Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli -- who in their own individual ways are functions of the System that persecutes him. While Welles considered {-The Trial} one of his finest films, this

Video: Friendly Persuasion

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:09:09 -0400

Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jessamyn West, Friendly Persuasion is set in Southern Indiana in the early days of the Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Jess Birdwell, patriarch of a Quaker family which does not believe in warfare. Birdwell's son Josh (Anthony Perkins) wishes to adhere to his family's pacifism, but is afraid that if he doesn't sign up for military service, he'll prove to be a coward. Josh joins the Home Guard, which disturbs his mother Eliza (Dorothy McGuire). But Jess Birdwell realizes that his son must follow the dictates of his own conscience. Josh proves his courage to himself when he is wounded during a Rebel raid, while the elder Birdwell is able to stay faithful to his religious calling by not killing a Southern soldier when given both a chance and a good reason to do so. Allegedly, writer Jessamyn West nearly scotched her deal with producer/director William Wyler and distributor Allied Artists when Gary Cooper, taking his fans into consideration, insisted upon including a scene in w

Video: Demon In My View, A

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:25:25 -0400

Anthony Perkins, in one of his last roles, is the sole highlight of this mundane, German-made psychological thriller, based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. Perkins plays Arthur, an obsessive-compulsive English bachelor with a history of far more destructive habits -- the worst of which include his reign of terror as the Kenbourne Killer, who is responsible for the strangulation murders of several prostitutes. Like a certain legendary Perkins character of yore, Arthur has some Oedipal issues that need working out and fixates his mother fixation on the department-store mannequin he keeps in the secluded boarding house where he spends his retirement. When this decidedly one-sided relationship is disrupted by the sudden loss of the dummy, poor Arthur goes 'round the bend again... but the blame for the new string of murders falls on one of his neighbors instead. Bogged down by pedestrian direction and a romantic subplot that serves little purpose, this attempt at a detailed portrayal of madness is kept aloft (barely)

Video: Psycho 2

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:14:41 -0400

A sequel to one of the most popular horror films of all time, this psychological thriller received a pleasantly surprised, positive critical reception. Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates, who has just been released from an insane asylum after 22 years, having been judged clinically sane by the State of California over the objections of Lila Crane Loomis (Vera Miles), sister to one of Norman's murder victims. Norman returns home to the hotel and hilltop mansion he once inhabited with his mother. As a parole condition, Norman is hired at a local diner, where he struggles to join mainstream society, despite the stares of patrons aware of his past. At the diner, Norman befriends Mary (Meg Tilly), a waitress, and it seems that he may be putting some semblance of a life back together. But then Norman begins to experience hallucinatory encounters with his long-dead mother, including a handwritten note, a phone call, and a sighting of her standing at her favorite window. Is Norman's psychosis manifesting itself

Video: Murder On The Orient Express

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:06:16 -0400

Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and murder of the infant daughter of a famed aviatrix. Thus, when Ratchett is himself found murdered, everyone is suspect. Normally, the police would handle the investigation, but the train has been stalled by a snowslide halfway between Istanbul and Paris. Thus, it's up to the insufferable but brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (an unrecognizable Albert Finney) to activate his little grey cells and determine who's guilty. Among the suspects are colorful characters played by Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Wendy Hiller, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, and Ingrid Bergman, whose performance won her a third Academy Award. (In her acceptance speech, Bergman apologized f

Video: Psycho 3

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:27:54 -0400

For his third outing as disturbed innkeeper Norman Bates, Anthony Perkins directed as well as starred in the thriller Psycho III. This time out, Norman is still manning the desk at the Bates Motel, where he now has an assistant, Duane (Jeff Fahey), and a new long-term tenant, Maureen Coyle (Diana Scarwid). Maureen has been seeing Duane and has some issues to resolve in her life; she gave up her vows as a nun not long ago, and she isn't sure just how she feels about either spiritual or earthly matters. Norman takes an interest in Maureen, which may not be good for her long-term health -- after all, the last woman with the initials M.C. who stayed in that room (and used the shower) met with a rather nasty fate. Perkins played Norman Bates one more time, in the made-for-cable Psycho IV: The Beginning; a short-lived TV series followed, Bates Motel, in which Perkins did not participate. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Psycho

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:27:51 -0400

Independent film director Gus Van Sant attempts a first in American film history: a shot-by-shot remake of the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. With a few minor, modern-day changes (including filming it in color), his version is essentially the same film with a different cast and the same Bernard Hermann music. Psycho was and still is the story of Marion Crane (previously played by Janet Leigh and now by Anne Heche), an adulterous woman who steals a stack of money from her boss and hits the road hoping for financial freedom. Pulling over in an old motel for the night, she meets the creepy owner of the Bates Motel, Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn doing his best Anthony Perkins), who lives with his jealous nagging mother. Most people know the film Psycho for what happens next -- the shower scene, where Marion is brutally stabbed in the most over-analyzed scene in movie history. The money, the car, and Marion's remains are quickly sunk in a nearby swamp. As a detective (William H. Macy) and Marion's sister

Video: I'm Dangerous Tonight

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:18:18 -0400

A made-for-TV effort from horror director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), this supernatural thriller is ostensibly based on the novella of the same name by Cornell Woolrich -- but the title is pretty much where the similarity ends. The plot involves a possessed Aztec ceremonial cloak (once used to line a sacred burial chamber) which poisons the soul of anyone who wears it. An improbable string of events sees the cloak turned into a little slip of a dress -- donned by several different women, but worn to evil perfection by Madchen Amick (Twin Peaks's Shelly). I'm Dangerous Tonight features colorful supporting performances from Anthony Perkins and R. Lee Ermey. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide.

Video: Daughter Of Darkness

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:05:17 -0400

This made-for-cable vampire potboiler is distinguished mainly by the presence of director Stuart Gordon (of Re-Animator fame) and a sadly pallid looking Anthony Perkins in one of his last roles. Radiant Mia Sara plays schoolteacher Catherine Thatcher, whose trip to Budapest in search of her father (whom she has never met) reveals the grim underbelly of Romanian society in the dark days of Ceausescu. In an interesting twist, the dictator's sadistic secret police have become a veritable den of vampires (a barb-tongued breed dating back to Medieval times). Plots within plots unfold to reveal the true identity of Catherine's father. Gordon makes good use of authentic locations and somber atmosphere, blending the standard gothic look with a feel of social and spiritual decay -- but the bland script fails to exploit the metaphorical possibilities of this setting, and the silly horror effects make it hard to take seriously. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide.

Video: Tips For Healthy Hair

CBS — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:33:19 -0400

President Kennedy did it. So did Anthony Perkins. Find out what "it" is when Christopher Walken reveals his secret to healthy hair.