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 · 2h · PG-13
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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 Traveling salesman in diner
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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