In the United States, a sheriff is a county official and is typically the top law enforcement officer of a county. Historically, the sheriff was also commander of the militia in that county. Distinctive to law enforcement in the United States, sheriffs are usually elected. The political election of a person to serve as a police leader is an almost uniquely American tradition. (The Honorary Police of Jersey, a UK Crown Dependency in the Channel Islands, have been elected since at least the 16th century.)
The law enforcement agency headed by a sheriff is typically referred to as a sheriff's office or sheriff's department. According to the National Sheriffs' Association, an American sheriff's advocacy group founded in 1940, as of the end of 2008 there were 3,085 sheriff's offices and departments. These range in size from very small (one- or two-member) forces in sparsely populated rural areas to large, full-service law enforcement agencies, such as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is the largest sheriff's office and the seventh largest law enforcement agency in the United States, with 16,400 members and 400 reserve deputies. The average sheriff's department in the United States employs 24.5 sworn officers.
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The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe, even thought he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment, Nicholas's family welcomes him like their son, leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a race against time for the investigators, family and Bourdin. But who is manipulating whom? And who is Frederic Bourdin in reality?
Keywords: baton-rouge-louisiana, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, fbi, fbi-agent, impostor, louisiana
How do you know what you see is really the truth?
A son, a brother, a lover, a friend - can we ever know who people say they are?
You can't die twice.
He was different things to different people. But his lies were the same to all.
Kimberly Miller: I was never really a good mother to you.
Frédéric Fortin: Me? Calling you? In your dreams, maybe.
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The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe, even thought he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment, Nicholas's family welcomes him like their son, leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a race against time for the investigators, family and Bourdin. But who is manipulating whom? And who is Frederic Bourdin in reality?
Keywords: baton-rouge-louisiana, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, fbi, fbi-agent, impostor, louisiana
How do you know what you see is really the truth?
A son, a brother, a lover, a friend - can we ever know who people say they are?
You can't die twice.
He was different things to different people. But his lies were the same to all.
Kimberly Miller: I was never really a good mother to you.
Frédéric Fortin: Me? Calling you? In your dreams, maybe.
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What's the cure for a terminally lazy spouse? For one angry young wife, murder is the answer. She hires a hit man, but he turns out to be a cop. As she languishes behind bars, a rabid media circle like sharks as her shiftless husband attempts to woo her back.
'Cause There's Only One Cure For A Terminally Lazy Spouse.
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After a young girl witnesses a brutal murder, criminal psychologist Dr. Julie Craig and Detective Steve Banks are called in to help her identify the killer. But what appears to be an ordinary mugging slowly reveals itself to be a complex political conspiracy. In a desperate race to protect the crime's only eyewitness, Julie and Steve must find the truth...before the killer finds them.
Keywords: gun, independent-film, murder, washington-d.c.
One dead. One to go...
One Murder. One Witness... One Down, One To Go.
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A telepathic terrorist from a parallel universe kidnaps a woman on her wedding day. The groom tracks them down after receiving assistance from the inventor of a life restoring bracelet. The bride was considered the terrorists telepathic life partner.
Keywords: cyborg, independent-film, kidnapping, parallel-universe, wedding
Hewey Calloway: Tommy, I ain't never been killed in my life.
Hewey Calloway: Biscuit, I'm tired of this cowology. I'm tired of these mountains. And if you won't take it the wrong way, I'd just as soon talk with somebody can talk back every once in a while - you ain't said nothin' in two years.
C.C. Tarpley: All you got is a brown horse past his prime, an old saddle, and *maybe* twenty dollars. Now, that ain't much to show for all them years, is it?::Hewey Calloway: I went north one time into Canada and seen the glaciers. You ever see a glacier, C.C.?
Eve Calloway: You're a cripple with two good legs!
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For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs and Arthur Brock. Jack kills Brock in self defense, but Burroughs escapes, and Jack is in danger of going to prison because Brock's gun can't be found. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day. Jack tries to convince Reggie to help him clear his name and find the Ice Man, but Reggie says he won't help unless Jack gives Reggie the $500,000 that Jack has been holding on to for Reggie. Jack refuses to give Reggie the money unless Reggie helps him. After the bus that is transporting Reggie away from the prison is forced to crash by two bikers and Jack gets shot by the same two bikers, Jack forces Reggie to help him by having the hospital release Reggie into his custody. Reggie recognized one of the bikers as Richard "Cherry" Ganz, the brother of Albert Ganz, the escaped convict Jack killed years ago. Jack got shot because Cherry wants revenge for Albert's death, and Cherry and his partner Willie Hickok are the hitmen who have been hired to kill Reggie. Burroughs, who works for the Ice Man, was trying to hire Brock as insurance, just in case Cherry and Hickok fail. Blake Wilson, the head of the Internal Affairs division, obviously doesn't like Jack, because Wilson will stop at nothing to prosecute Jack for manslaughter in Brock's death, and it turns out that the Ice Man put a price on Reggie's head because Reggie knows who the Ice Man is someone Jack never expected it to be.
Keywords: action-hero, action-violence, african-american, ambulance, ambush, attempted-murder, badge, bar, bar-brawl, bar-fight
Here they go again. Only faster. And tougher.
The Boys Are Back In Town
Reggie Hammond: Let me tell you something, Jack. If shit was worth something, poor people would be born with no asshole.
Reggie: How much of my money did you spend?::Jack: Oh, about 25 grand. You said I could buy a new car.::Reggie: So where is it?::Jack: This *is* the new car!::Reggie: This looks like the same piece-of-shit sky blue Cadillac you had before!::Jack: Yeah, I bought the same make, model, year, color, everything the same. That's the way I like it. I get attached to things, Reggie!
Jack: You got framed. That's what every convict says!::Reggie: Well, what about you, man? They never found that bad guy's gun out at the racetrack!::Jack: That's different.::Reggie: How's it different?::Jack: I'm a cop, you're a crook.::Reggie: Oh, get the fuck outta here! Just 'cause I'm a convict, every thin' that comes outta my mouth is a god damn lie?::Jack: That's right.::Reggie: So it's just Screw Reggie Hammond?::Jack: That's right!
Ben Kehoe: Christ, you really toasted that guy, Jack.::Jack Cates: Ah, goddammit, I didn't TOAST the guy! I just SHOT him! For Chrissakes, don't say I TOASTED him, Ben!
Reggie: When you've been in prison as long as I have, you remember every story about pussy you ever heard.
[Kehoe is holding Reggie hostage, using him as a human shield]::Ben Kehoe: Jack, we can work this out! Just let me out of here!::Jack Cates: You're a disgrace, Ben. Nothing worse than a bad cop.::Reggie Hammond: Hey, Jack! Thank you for a very pleasant day! Okay, I got no car, I got no money, and I'm gonna end the day off with this goddamn dope man's Uzi by my temple! Thank you, Jack! Look, this is Jack's day, why don't you just let Jack shoot me? Save your bullet! Jack, why don't you shoot me? Shoot me, Jack!::[Jack shoots Reggie in the shoulder. Stunned, Reggie collapses to the floor, and Jack shoots Ben dead]
[while Jack is being beaten up by barroom toughts, Reggie fires a gun into the air. Everyone stops, and Jack collapses to the floor]::Reggie Hammond: All right, knock this shit off! I HAVE BEEN HAVING A VERY BAD DAY! I just got out of jail this morning! Already I've been shot at, I was on a bus that flipped over seventeen times, bitch tried to stab me in the bathroom, and somebody blew up my Porsche! I am in a BAD goddamn mood! Now I usually don't step in on things like this, but this man Jack Cates is gonna help me straighten out the rest of my day! So I suggest you all back up, and let us go about our business!::Barroom Fighter: 'Cause you got a gun?::Reggie Hammond: No, 'cause I have a gun and I'll pop a cap in your ass!
Reggie Hammond: They blew up my car! They blew up my *car*!::Jack: It's a damn shame.::Reggie Hammond: They blew up my car and all you have to say is it's a damn shame?::Jack: No car, no money, you're having a bad day!
Cherry Ganz: [realizes Jack is still alive] No *fucking* way!
Tyrone Burroughs: What's the fucking difference who pulled the trigger? The cops were getting too close, that's how the man does business, *business*, not personal. You know you two fucking hillbillies should learn the difference.::Cherry Ganz: Business? Yeah.::[shoots Burroughs in the ear]::Cherry Ganz: That's business too.::Tyrone Burroughs: [holding his ear in pain but beginning to laugh] You happy now, asshole?::[laughs]::Tyrone Burroughs: That still doesn't change the job! You got to kill Reggie Hammond.
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Now declared legally sane, Norman Bates is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement over the protests of Marion Crane's sister Lila Loomis, who insists that he's still a killer and that the court's indifference to his victims by releasing him is a gross miscarriage of justice. Norman returns to his motel and the old Victorian mansion where his troubles started, and history predictably begins to repeat itself.
Keywords: 1980s, anger, bandaged-hand, bare-breasts, based-on-ed-gein, beaten-to-death, being-followed, blood, breaking-and-entering, business-card
It's 22 years later, and Norman Bates is finally coming home
Norman Bates is back. Coming home was a bad mistake!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the shower!
It's 22 years later and Norman Bates is coming home.
The Bates Hotel Is Back In Business!
Norman Bates: Hello?::Sheriff John Hunt: I'm Sheriff Hunt, how are you?
Norma Bates: [to Norman] Remember Norman: only your Mother truly loves you.
Norman Bates: I don't kill people anymore.
Norman Bates: Would you care to share my toasted cheese sandwich?::Mrs. Spool: No thank you.
Norman Bates: Just, don't let them take me back to the institution.
Norman Bates: Mary, I'm becoming confused again, aren't I?::Mary: Of course not.::Norman Bates: [holding the knife] Don't lie to me! Not you!::Mary: Yes, Norman... you are becoming confused again.
Dr. Raymond: What's the matter?::Norman Bates: Uh, I saw someone!::Dr. Raymond: Where?::Norman Bates: Up there! In that window!::Dr. Raymond: I haven't had a tenant in the house for years.::Norman Bates: I guess I'm just nervous!::Dr. Raymond: Well, that's understandable under the circumstances.::Norman Bates: Yeah.
Dr. Raymond: Norman was not convicted of murder. He was found not guilty by reasons of insanity, and since he is no longer insane, he has the right to live a normal life like you and I.::Lila Loomis: That's just legal hocus pocus, and when he murders again you will be directly responsible.
Sheriff John Hunt: Are you sure neither one of you heard anything between four to five this afternoon?::Norman Bates: No, I was...::Mary: [cutting Norman off] He was with me all afternoon. We were walking in the fields behind the house around that time.::Sheriff John Hunt: Okay. Nice to see you again, Norman.::[the sheriff and his deputy walk out. Mary closes the front door and watches them walk away]::Norman Bates: [to Mary; bewildered] Why did you do THAT?::Mary: Do what?::Norman Bates: Lie to the sheriff. You weren't with me all afternoon!::Mary: I had to do something! He was going to arrest you!::[Norman suddenly holds his head in pain, and slumps down into a nearby armchair]::Mary: Norman, what's wrong?::Norman Bates: It's starting again.
Mary Samuels/Mary Loomis: Then who did it?::Norman Bates: My mother did, she told me so herself.::Mary Samuels/Mary Loomis: Oh Norman... You're mad don't you know that? You're as mad as a hatter.::[the telephone rings]::Norman Bates: Should I answer it?::Mary Samuels/Mary Loomis: Why bother? It's only my mother. She shouldn't be calling she should be sitting back and gloating.::Norman Bates: I better answer it.
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Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.
Keywords: abandoned-house, alimony, all-knowing-psychiatrist, alone-in-house, ambitious-woman, apartment-building, bad-mother, based-on-ed-gein, based-on-novel, basement
The picture you MUST see from the beginning... Or not at all!... For no one will be seated after the start of... Alfred Hitchcock's greatest shocker Psycho.
An Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece.
The Essential Alfred Hitchcock.
A new- and altogether different- screen excitement!!!
* No One ... BUT NO ONE ... Will Be Admitted To The Theatre After The Start Of Each Performance Of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
It Is _Required_ That You See Psycho From The Very Beginning!
Don't give away the ending - it's the only one we have!
The screen's master of suspense moves his camera into the icy blackness of the unexplained!
Electrifying shocker! (Australia Release)
The master of suspense moves his cameras into the icy blackness of the unexplored! (window card)
Norman Bates: Dirty night.
Marion Crane: Do you have any vacancies?::Norman Bates: Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.
Norma Bates: [voice-over] No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Mother, please...!::Norma Bates: [voice-over] And then what? After supper? Music? Whispers?::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Mother, she's just a stranger. She's hungry, and it's raining out!::Norma Bates: [voice-over] "Mother, she's just a stranger"! As if men don't desire strangers! As if... ohh, I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me! You understand, boy? Go on, go tell her she'll not be appeasing her ugly appetite with MY food... or my son! Or do I have tell her because you don't have the guts! Huh, boy? You have the guts, boy?::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Shut up! Shut up!
Marion Crane: I'll lick the stamps.
Norman Bates: I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.
California Charlie: [Marion is imagining various conversations between the people she believes will be looking for her] Heck, Officer, that was the first time I ever saw the customer high-pressure the salesman! Somebody chasin' her?::Highway Patrol officer: I better have a look at those papers, Charlie.::California Charlie: She look like the wrong-one to you?::Highway Patrol officer: Acted like one.::California Charlie: The only funny thing, she paid me seven hundred dollars in cash.::Caroline: [Marion imagines another conversation] Yes, Mr. Lowery?::George Lowery: Caroline? Marion still isn't in?::Caroline: No, Mr. Lowery. But then, she's always a bit late on Monday mornings.::George Lowery: Buzz me the minute she comes in. Then call her sister - if no one's answering at the house.::Caroline: [Marion imagines the conversation later resuming] I called her sister, Mr. Lowery, where she works, - the Music Makers Music Store, you know, - and she doesn't know where Marion is any more than we do.::George Lowery: You'd better run out to the house. She may be, well - unable to answer the phone.::Caroline: Her sister's going to do that. She's as worried as we are.::George Lowery: [Marion imagines Lowery speaking to her sister Lila] No, I haven't the faintest idea. As I said, I last saw your sister when she left the office on Friday. She said she didn't feel well and wanted to leave early; I said she could. That was the last I saw... Now wait a minute. I did see her sometime later, driving - Ah, I think you'd better come over here to my office - quick! Caroline, get Mr. Cassidy for me!::[pause]::George Lowery: [Marion imagines another conversation] After all, Cassidy, I told you - all that cash! I'm not taking the responsibility! Oh, for heaven's sake! A girl works for you for ten years, you trust her! All right. Yes. You better come over.::Tom Cassidy: Well, I ain't about to kiss off forty thousand dollars! I'll get it back, and if any of it's missin' I'll replace it with her fine, soft flesh! I'll track her, never you doubt it!::George Lowery: Oh, hold on, Cassidy! I-I still can't believe - it must be some kind of mystery. I-I can't...::Tom Cassidy: You checked with the bank, no? They never laid eyes on her, no? You still trustin'? Hot creepers! She sat there while I dumped it out! Hardly even looked at it! Plannin'! And - even flirtin' with me!
Sheriff Al Chambers: Your detective told you he couldn't come right back because he was goin' to question Norman Bates' mother. Right?::Lila Crane: Yes.::Sheriff Al Chambers: Norman Bates' mother has been dead and buried in Greenlawn Cenetery for the past ten years!::Eliza Chambers: I helped Norman pick out the dress she was buried in. Periwinkle blue.::Sheriff Al Chambers: 'Tain't only local history, Sam. It's the only case of murder and suicide on Fairvale ledgers.
Norman Bates: [voice-over] Now mother, I'm going to uh, bring something up...::Norma Bates: [voice-over] Haha... I am sorry, boy, but you do manage to look ludicrous when you give me orders.::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Please, mother.::Norma Bates: [voice-over] No! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I'm fruity, huh? I'm staying right here. This is my room and no one will drag me out of it, least of all my big, bold son!::Norman Bates: [voice-over] They'll come now, mother! He came after the girl, and now someone will come after him. Please mother, it's just for a few days, just for a few days so they won't find you!::Norma Bates: [voice-over] "Just for a few days"? In that dark, dank fruit cellar? No! You hid me there once, boy, and you'll not do it again, not ever again; now get out! I told you to get out, boy.::Norman Bates: [voice-over] I'll carry you, mother.::Norma Bates: [voice-over] Norman! What do you think you're doing? Don't you touch me, don't! NORMAN! Put me down, put me down, I can walk on my own...
Sam Loomis: You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?::Sheriff Al Chambers: Now wait a minute, Sam, are you *sure* you saw an old woman?::Sam Loomis: Yes! In the house behind the motel! I called and I pounded, but she just ignored me!::Sheriff Al Chambers: You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?::Lila Crane: It had to be - because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.::Sheriff Al Chambers: Well, if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates... who's that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?
California Charlie: I'm in no mood for trouble.::Marion Crane: What?::California Charlie: There's an old saying, "First customer of the day is always the trouble!" But like I say, I'm in no mood for it, so I'm gonna treat you so fair and square that you won't have one human reason to give me...::Marion Crane: Can I trade my car in and take another?::California Charlie: Do anything you've a mind to. Bein' a woman, you will. That yours?::Marion Crane: Yes, it's just that - there's nothing wrong with it. I just...::California Charlie: Sick of the sight of it! Well, why don't you have a look around here and see if there's somethin' that strikes your eyes, and meanwhile I'll have my mechanic give yours the once over. You want some coffee? I was just about...::Marion Crane: No, thank you. I'm in a hurry. I just want to make a change, and...::California Charlie: One thing people never oughtta be when they're buyin' used cars, and that's in a hurry. But like I said, it's too nice a day to argue. I'll uh - shoot your car in the garage here.