Birds, The

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(drama, fantasy, horror, thriller)

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..

actors:

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

directors:
Alfred Hitchcock
rating:7.80

See also: Drama: Scent of a Woman