Norman Bates meets the Girl Next Door

50 years ago this week, Pretty Poison was playing a first-run engagement in Columbus, Ohio. Anthony Perkins plays a guy with some mental problems (not quite as badly off as his Norman Bates from Psycho but he has spent some time in an institution) who meets the lovely young Tuesday Weld, who seems sweet and innocent but who ends up giving Perkins a run for his money in the sociopath department. Not a hit on release, but now a cult classic. Maybe a Valentine's Day date movie for the unconventional.