Drawing from the relatively invisible literary talents of Daphne DuMaurier and Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock has fashioned a major work of cinematic art, and "cinematic" is the operative term here, not "literary" or "sociological."
The Birds
...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!
1963 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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The Birds
Overview
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Director and cast
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels
- Rod Taylor as Mitch Brenner
- Jessica Tandy as Lydia Brenner
- Suzanne Pleshette as Annie Hayworth
- Veronica Cartwright as Cathy Brenner
- Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Bundy
- Charles McGraw as Sebastian Sholes
- Ruth McDevitt as Mrs. MacGruder
- Lonny Chapman as Deke Carter
- Joe Mantell as Le voyageur de commerce au bar
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.
Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.
Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film (1963), and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings.
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