Martin Balsam "The Goodbye People". In 1960, he appeared in one of his best-remembered roles as Detective Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". Along with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam appeared in both the original "Cape Fear" (1962), and the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Arnold Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1965). In 1968, he won a Tony Award for his appearance in the 1967 Broadway production of "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running". Balsam played "Washington Post" editor Howard Simons in "All the President's
Whispers in the Dark (film) January 18, 1992. Caryn James of "The New York Times" said, "in its worst moments, [the film] is exploitative, with the detective flashing gruesome photos of tortured women at Ann. More often, it is so loopy it should have been played for laughs." Todd McCarthy of "Variety" stated, "A turn-off psycho-sexual thriller, 'Whispers in the Dark' grows steadily more absurd by the reel until literally stumbling into the ocean at its climax. Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the film zero stars out of four, calling it "the leading candidate for the title of Worst Movie of the Year"