The Birds (1963)


Rodney Turt Taylor      Mitch Brenner
Tippi Hedren            Melanie Daniels
Jessica Tandy           Mrs Brenner
Suzanne Pleshette       Annie Hayworth
Veronica Cartwright     Cathy Brenner
Ethel Griffies          Mrs Bundy
Charles McGraw          Sebastian Sholes
Ruth McDevitt           Mrs MacGruder
Joe Mantell             Traveling Salesman
Doreen Lang             Hysterical Woman
Malcolm Atterbury       Deputy Al Malone
Karl Swenson            Drunk
Elizabeth W. Wilson     Helen Carter
Lonny Chapman           Deke Carter

Directed by:            Alfred Hitchcock
Produced by:            Alfred Hitchcock


An immense flock of birds descends upon a seacost town, makes it their nesting ground, and begins to 
attack and kill the townsfolk.

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Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store 
when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; 
he recognizes Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her own back by 
buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends 
with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just the 
start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds.

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When Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake, she is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidents of bird attacks on 
humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter as birds dive into them, children are sent home from 
school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Ms. Daniels is trapped in a phone booth, and, 
finally, everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds.