The Birds PG-13
...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 28, 2012
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette & Veronica Cartwright | |
Performer: | Charles McGraw, Ethel Griffies, Ruth McDevitt, Malcolm Atterbury, Lonny Chapman, Tracy Scoggins, Doreen Lang, Elizabeth Wilson, Richard Deacon, Karl Swenson, John McGovern, Doodles Weaver, Joe Mantell & Mike Monteleone | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | George Tomasini | |
Screenplay by | Evan Hunter | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Burks |
Entertainment Reviews:
Drawing from the relatively invisible literary talents of Daphne DuMaurier and Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock has fashioned a major work of cinematic art, and "cinematic" is the operative term here, not "literary" or "sociological."
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Village Voice
Hitchcock prolongs his prelude to horror for more than half the film, playing with audience suspense with comedy and romance while he sets his stage. The horror when it comes is a hair-raiser ...
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Hollywood Reporter
The only characters in the film who aren't birdbrains are the birds.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
In the thick of an impeccable narrative that pays deep attention to all those involved, the great filmmaker manages to reach far inside the psychological chasm and find a rich inspiration.
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Cinemaphile.org
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
New Yorker
Rating: 5/5 --
The true genius of the film, based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, is the way Hitchcock makes the malevolent birds seem like manifestations of his characters' mental unease.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
The movie flaps to a plotless end.
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TIME Magazine
Product Description:
In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding follow-up to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith's mother) carries the picture in her first film role ever, embarking on a career as an icy-cool leading lady. Loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier story and a Santa Monica newspaper account, "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes," THE BIRDS also features groundbreaking special effects that, in 1963, surprised and delighted audiences.
Wealthy reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Hedren) enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds, Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house. One day, during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister, a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact, it signals the beginning of a massive avian assault on the residents of the town--a mysterious assault that no one can explain...and from which no one may come out alive.
Wealthy reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Hedren) enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds, Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house. One day, during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister, a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact, it signals the beginning of a massive avian assault on the residents of the town--a mysterious assault that no one can explain...and from which no one may come out alive.
Keywords:
Romance
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Small Towns
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1960s
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Small Town Life
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Essential Cinema
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Classic
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- UPC: 025192147289
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