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A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds.
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The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother Jessica Tandy at Bodega Bay, where the characters' sense of security is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of the birds in the area. At first, it's no more than a sea gull swooping down and pecking at Melanie's head.

Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party. There is never an explanation as to why the birds have run amok, but once the onslaught begins, there's virtually no letup. Alfred Hitchcock. Evan Hunter , Alfred Hitchcock. Mar 28, Rod Taylor as Mitch Brenner.

Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels. Suzanne Pleshette as Annie Hayworth. Jessica Tandy as Lydia Brenner. Veronica Cartwright as Cathy Brenner. Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Ruth McDevitt as Mrs. Lonny Chapman as Deke.

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Charles McGraw as Sebastian Sholes. Karl Swenson as Drunk. Elizabeth Wilson as Helen. Malcolm Atterbury as Deputy. Joe Mantell as Salesman. Doodles Weaver as Fisherman. Ungrammatical advertising campaigns emphasized: "The Birds Is Coming.


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Novelist Evan Hunter based his screenplay upon the collection of short stories of the same name by Daphne du Maurier - Hitchcock's third major film based on the author's works after Jamaica Inn and Rebecca In du Maurier's story, the birds were attacking in the English countryside, rather than in a small town north of San Francisco. The film's technical wizardry is extraordinary, especially in the film's closing scene a complex, trick composite shot - the special visual effects of Ub Iwerks were nominated for an Academy Award the film's sole nomination , but the Oscar was lost to Cleopatra Hundreds of birds gulls, ravens, and crows were trained for use in some of the scenes, while mechanical birds and animations were employed for others.

The film's non-existent musical score is replaced by an electronic soundtrack including simulated bird cries and wing-flaps , with Hitchcock's favorite composer Bernard Herrmann serving as a sound consultant. Hitchcock introduced a 'fascinating new personality' for the film - his successor to Grace Kelly - a cool, blonde professional model named 'Tippi' Hedren, in her film debut in a leading role. The director was Rick Rosenthal, although the standard generic pseudonym 'Alan Smithee' is found in the credits. The typical Hitchcock MacGuffin was the question: Why do the strange attacks occur?

The main inspiration for the film's bird attacks came from mysterious, real-life avian deaths occurring in the summer of Thousands of disoriented seagulls suicidally flew into houses along the Monterey Bay coast line, further south of San Francisco.

Scientists at LSU finally discovered that the deaths happened because the birds had been poisoned by a nerve-damaging toxin called domoic acid found in the birds' natural diet of anchovies and squid that had both eaten plankton with concentrated levels of domoic acid.

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The acid caused bird brain damage, or at the least, created confusion, dizzyness and seizures. The acid had possibly come from leaky domestic septic tanks in the area rather than from suspected farm fertilizers. But the film cannot solely be interpreted in a scientific manner, because as the actors in the film discover in the long discussion scene in the Tides Restaurant, there is no solid, rational reason why the birds are attacking. They are not seeking revenge for nature's mistreatment, or foreshadowing doomsday, and they don't represent God's punishment for humankind's evil.

When this is understood, the symbolic film's complex fabric makes more sense, especially if interpreted in Freudian terms.

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It is about three needy women literally 'birds' - and a fourth from a younger generation - each flocking around and vying for varying degrees of affection and attention from the sole, emotionally-cold male lead, and the fragile tensions, anxieties and unpredictable relations between them. The attacks are mysteriously related to the mother and son relationship in the film - anger and fears of abandonment or being left lonely of the jealous, initially hostile mother come to the surface surface when her bachelor son brings home an attractive young woman.

Curiously, the first attack has symbolic phallic undertones - it occurs when the man and woman approach toward each other outside the restaurant in the coastal town. On an allegorical level, the birds in the film are the physical embodiment and exteriorization of unleashed, disturbing, shattering forces that threaten all of humanity those threatened in the film include schoolchildren, a defenseless farmer, bystanders, a schoolteacher, etc. In a broader, more universal sense, the stability of the home and natural world environment, symbolized by broken teacups at the domestic level, is in jeopardy and becoming disordered when people cannot 'see' the dangers gathering nearby, and cannot adequately protect themselves from violence behind transparent windows, telephone booths, eyeglasses, or facades.

Numerous allusions to blindness are sprinkled throughout the film the farmer's eyes are pecked out, the children play blindman's bluff at the birthday party, the broken glasses of the fleeing schoolchild, etc. The film commences on a white background, as dark black, silhouetted bird-shapes rush through and destroy the robin's egg-blue credits as they appear, accompanied by upsetting noises of screeching flapping sounds and bird cries.