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Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.
Rated NR | Length 119 minutes
Alfred Hitchcock | Doreen Lang | Veronica Cartwright | Jessica Tandy | Tippi Hedren | Rod Taylor | Suzanne Pleshette | Ethel Griffies | Charles McGraw | Elizabeth Wilson | Darlene Conley | Karl Swenson | Dal McKennon | Rory Stevens | Joe Mantell | Morgan Brittany | Richard Deacon | Ruth McDevitt | Doodles Weaver | Lonny Chapman | Bill Quinn | Malcolm Atterbury | John McGovern | Jeannie Russell | Renn Reed | Mike Monteleone | Arnold Roberts | Betsy Hale
I had seen The Birds before but Jenni and I sat down and watched it again because it had been a while.
In review the effects are mostly bad by today’s standards but I do give it up to some of the layering effects they used to show so many birds with the humans near them. It’s the puppet work that’s laughable. One thing I hadn’t remembered is just how annoying and crazy Tippi Hedren’s character Melanie is. She’s outright rude, very selfish and then when she does take an effort to be nice it’s in this creepy stalkerish way (IE how she sneaks to the island to see Rod Taylor’s character, by boat and breaks into his house to leave the 2 birds).
I love this movie and think that even today it’s great at building suspense and tension. I do wish the ending was a stronger, but it’s easily one of the best Hitchcock films I’ve seen.
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