Its shower scene is one of the most famous in cinema history and has spawned many pale imitations over the past 50 years, but Alfred Hitchcock apparently meant his 1960 suspense horror film Psycho to be a comedy, the Mirror and Telegraph report. An interview with the director has just been unearthed in BBC archives and reveals his real aim. "I once made a movie, rather tongue-in-cheek, called Psycho. The content was, I felt, rather amusing and it was a big joke. I was horrified some people took it seriously," he told the TV programme Monitor in July 1964. That Hitchcock, eh? Still springing surprises from beyond the grave.
