Download Birds, The
(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 |
Alfred Hitchcock
rating:7.80
See also: Drama: Weather Man, The