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11. The Knife Never Touched Janet Leigh

Things were very different in the 1960s, so when it came to portraying the film’s more extreme scenes of violence, Alfred Hitchcock really had to work hard to make the scene both horrifying and realistic. So, Hitchcock resorted to using a lightning quick series of cuts that went from shots of skin to the knife plunging to Leigh screaming. In the editing room, the effect was quite powerful.

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