Birds, The
Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases
. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It’s enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.
Title: Birds, The
Release Date: 1963
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
- Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
- Actors:
- Taylor, Rod as Mitch Brenner
- Tandy, Jessica as Lydia Brenner
- Pleshette, Suzanne as Annie Hayworth
- Hedren, Tippi as Melanie Daniels
- Cartwright, Veronica as Cathy Brenner
- Griffies, Ethel as Mrs. Bundy, elderly ornithologist
- McGraw, Charles as Sebastian Sholes, fisherman in diner
- McDevitt, Ruth as Mrs. MacGruder, pet store clerk
- Chapman, Lonny as Deke Carter, cook in diner
- Mantell, Joe as Traveling salesman at diner’’s bar
- Weaver, Doodles as Fisherman helping with rental boat
- Atterbury, Malcolm as Deputy Al Malone
- McGovern, John as Postal clerk
- Swenson, Karl as Doomsayer in diner
- Deacon, Richard as Mitch’’s city neighbor