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: Weather Man, The