On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 39.
Episode entitled: The Bad Apple.
Released June 21, 1960.
Directed by Paul Stewart.
Written by Jay D. Crowley, Fenton Earnshaw and Kevin Thomas.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, June Blair, Charles Aidman, Boyd Holister, Robert Palmer, Baily Harper, Nora Marlowe, Pitt Herbert, Robert Courtleigh.

On this day in movie history - House of Usher, aka The Fall of the House of Usher (1960):

House of Usher

aka The Fall of the House of Usher,

directed by Roger Corman,

written by Richard Matheson,

based on the short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe,

was released in the United States on June 18, 1960.
Music by Les Baxter.

Cast:

Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, David Andar, Mario Bellini, Bill Borzage, Eleanor LeFaber, Nadajan, Ruth Oklander, George Paul, Géraldine Paulette, Phil Sulvestre, John Zimeas.

On this day in movie history - Psycho (1960 movie & books):

Psycho

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Joseph Stefano,

based on the novel by Robert Bloch,

was released in the United States, on June 16, 1960.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.
Inspired by the true 1957 Ed Gein murder case.

Cast:

Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Frank Albertson, Pat Hitchcock, Vaughn Taylor, Lurene Tuttle, John Anderson, Mort Mills, Virginia Gregg, Paul Jasmin, Jeanette Nolan.

Recommended reading:

Psycho

By Robert Bloch.

Filmed as Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Published by The Overlook Press.

First published 1959.

ISBN-10: 1590203356

ISBN-13: 9781590203354

Description:

"Psycho all came from Robert Bloch's book." – Alfred Hitchcock.

"Icily terrifying!" – The New York Times.

"Robert Bloch is one of the all-time masters." – Peter Straub.

Norman Bates loves his mother. She has been dead for the past 20 years, or so people think. Norman knows better, though.

Ever since leaving the hospital, he has lived with Mother in the old house up on the hill above the Bates Motel. One night, after a beautiful woman checks into the motel, Norman spies on her as she undresses. Norman can’t help but spy on her.

Mother is there, though. She is there to protect Norman from his filthy thoughts. She is there to protect him with her butcher knife.

If you love to be scared, or are a fan of classic movies, then you know the story of Norman Bates, his mother, and the dark and frightening Bates Motel. Alfred Hitchcock’s taut, shocking scare-fest starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is a classic movie, as scary today as it was in 1960 when it was first released, and this is the 1959 novel upon which the movie is based.

It was here that the legend of the Bates Motel was born.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Edited by Richard J. Anobile.

The Film Classics Library.

Published by Universe Books.

First Edition.

Published 1974.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0876631898

ISBN-13: 978-0876631898

Description:

The Film Classics Library present the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book over 1,300 frame blow-up photos shown sequentially and coupled with the complete dialogue from the original soundtrack, allow you to recapture this film classic in its entirety – at your leisure.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 38.
Episode entitled: The Tiger’s Cage.
Released June 14, 1960.
Directed by Don McDougall.
Written by Stuart Jerome and Maxwell Shane.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Alan Reed, Dan Riss, Regina Gleason, Donald Barry, Art Lewis, Joseph Mell, George Eldredge, Lee Miller.

Recommended reading - The Ferguson Affair, by Ross Macdonald (1960):

The Ferguson Affair

By Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1960.

ISBN-10:030774079X

ISBN-13: 9780307740793

Description:

It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail.  Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip – fast.  He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl's hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring.  But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs, and passions, he couldn't guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common...

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 37.
Episode entitled: Fire in the Sky.
Released June 7, 1960.
Directed by Dann Cahn.
Written by Robert Quaid.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Rita Lynn, Richard Deacon, Frank Wilcox, Austin Green, Theodore Newton, Jerry O’Sullivan, Tom Monroe, Philip Chapin.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 36.
Episode entitled: Closed Season.
Released May 31, 1960.
Directed by Herman Hoffman.
Written by Terry Crosby, Lee Erwin and William McCluskey.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Paula Raymond, Dennis Patrick, Herbert Rudley, Chet Stratton, Anita Gordon, Robert Kino, Leonard P. Geer.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 35.
Episode entitled: Badge for a Coward.
Released May 25, 1960.
Directed by Paul Stewart.
Written by Jay D. Crowley, Ward Hawkins and Robert Quaid.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Edward Kemmer, Ruta Lee, Leonard Nimoy, Kathryn Card, Addison Richards, Stephen Chase.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 34.
Episode entitled: Two Days for Willy.
Released May 17, 1960.
Directed by Donald McDougall.
Written by Terry Crosby and Dennis Roberts.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Alan Hale, Peggy Webber, Harry Lauter, Mark Tapscott, Bob Hoy, Stephen Talbot.

On this day in movie history - The Adventure (1960):

The Adventure

directed by Michelangelo Antonioni,

written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra,

based on a story by Michelangelo Antonioni,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 15, 1960.

Music by Giovanni Fusco.

Cast:

Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams, Dorothy De Poliolo, Lelio Luttazzi, Giovanni Petrucci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Enrico Bologna, Franco Cimino, Giovanni Danesi, Rita Molè, Renato Pinciroli, Angela Tomasi di Lampedusa, Vincenzo Tranchina, Prof. Cucco, Jack O'Connell.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 33.
Episode entitled: A Grenade for a Summer’s Evening.
Released May 10, 1960.
Directed by Herman Hoffman.
Written by Terry Crosby.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jeanne Cooper, Adam Becker, Patty Ann Gerrity, Wesley Lau.