In 1963, the house was used in the film Invitation of a Gunfighter and the two missing sides were added. The interiors of the Bates motel and house were constructed on Stage 18-A and on the famous Stage 28, home to the "Phantom Stage". It is widely believed that Edward Hopper's 1925 painting House by the Railroad influenced the design of the house. Hurley and Clatworthy reused parts of other sets for the Bates house, including a tower from the house used in the James Stewart film Harvey (1948), and was constructed with only two walls, as that was all that was required for the purposes of the film. On the house and motel, he didn't say anything much, so we picked a spot kind of off by itself on the back lot and built the thing from the ground up. If he didn't, he’d give you very specifically what he wanted changed - just once and that would be it. It was pretty simple with Hitch, who was a quiet, not particularly exciting man to work with - except that he excited you about his project. I was happy the picture would be in black and white because I always attempted to take out the color, gray it down so it didn't look like a carnival Joe did a lot of illustrations for the movie. On the Bates house, he didn't say he wanted any particular look - which was one of the great things about him. Even though Hitchcock was an art director himself originally, he spoke only very generally. Joe and I went to Hitchcock’s house in Bel-Air to discuss the film. The motel and house seen in the film were created by production designers Joseph Hurley and Robert Clatworthy and built for just $15,000 on vacant land next to Laramie Street on the Universal Studio lot. When a new highway opened, with a junction to the old highway approximately 30 miles away, the number of visitors to the motel declined sharply. The motel has an adjoining house set on higher ground behind the main office and cabins, where Norman Bates lives in solitude with his mother, Norma Bates.Īccording to Robert Bloch's source novel, it was originally built when Norma's fiancée Joe Considine persuaded her to sell the farmland she owned and build a motel on the land between the family house and the highway. The Bates Motel is a fictional motel situated approximately 20 miles from the town of Fairvale, California, on an old highway and first seen in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. Subscribe below to receive show updates and related news.Anthony Perkins standing in front of the motel office, with the iconic Bates house in the background IMDb Page: IMDb page Subscribe for show updates
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