The Birds (1963)

Written by Daphne Du Maurier, Evan Hunter

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Running Time: 150 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1963

Rating: 15 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

This disturbing classic follows a spoilt and rich socialit, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) who is also renowned for playing practical jokes on people.

Whilst in a pet shop in San Francisco she notices a gentleman who comes in called Muitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) who is wanting to buy a pair of love birds for his sister birthday. He notices Melanie and, pretending to mistake her for a shop assistant, asks her about them.

Put out by being mistaken as a mere shop assistant, instead of the person she so obviously appears to be, Melanie buys the only two love birds in the shop and drives them down to the quiet sea-side town of Bodega Bay where he lives at the weekends with his mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and sister.

However soon into her stay she is attacked by a sea-gull, but this is only the beginning. Shortly the entire town gets bombarded by hundreds upon hundreds of birds that appear to have a grudge against the human inhabitants.

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Cast

	Rod Taylor		Mitch Brenner
	Jessica Tandy		Lydia Brenner
	Suzanne Pleshette		Annie Hayworth
	Tippi Hedren		Melanie Daniels
	Veronica Cartwright		Cathy Brenner
	Ethel Griffies		Mrs. Bundy
	Charles McGraw		Sebastian Sholes
	Ruth McDevitt		Mrs. MacGruder
	Lonny Chapman		Deke Carter
	Joe Mantell		Traveling salesman at diner's bar
	Doodles Weaver		Fisherman helping with rental boat
	Malcolm Atterbury		Deputy Al Malone
	John McGovern		Postal clerk
	Karl Swenson		Doomsayer in diner
	Richard Deacon		Mitch's city neighbor