| | Birds DVD (6 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Horror DVDs, Thriller Movies, Suspense Videos, Romance, Recommended, Classic, Essential Cinema, 1960s, Small Towns, Small Town Life, AFI Top 100 Thrills | | Starring | Rod Taylor, Veronica Cartwright, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Karl Swenson, Lonny Chapman, Richard Deacon, Charles McGraw, Tracy Scoggins, Elizabeth Wilson, Joe Mantell, Ethel Griffies, Ruth McDevitt, Malcolm Atterbury, Darlene Conley, Doreen Lang, John McGovern, Mike Monteleone, Doodles Weaver, Bill Quinn | | Director | Alfred Hitchcock | | Composer | Bernard Herrmann | | Costume Designer | Edith Head
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This 120 minute feature film is a DVD starring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Jessica Tandy. 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. Theatrical Release: March 28, 1963.
Filmed on location in Bodega Bay and San Francisco, California.
Hitchcock cameo: Hitchcock can be seen leaving the pet shop carrying two small dogs.
Screenwriter Evan Hunter also uses the name Ed McBain.
The film marked the debut for Tippi Hedren.
Ray Berwick trained all the birds for the film.
The film's original ending was reportedly more pessimistic: Mitch and Melanie drive from Bodega Bay, assuming that the birds have only overtaken that one small town. Upon arriving in San Francisco, however, they catch sight of the Golden Gate Bridge, completely covered in birds.
A very young Morgan Brittany appears in the film under the name Suzanne Cupito. Birds Reviews: "...One of the most logistically complex films of his entire half-century run..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...Hitchcock's shocker will peck away at your sanity..."
-- Daniel Webb, Total Film "[Hedren] is the ne plus ultra of Hitchcock's icy blondes..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere
This is the only Darlene Conley video. Stars also making their debut in this video: John McGovern, Mike Monteleone, Doodles Weaver. Birds Movie Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews If your into Alfred Hitchcock
I have always liked this movie so thats why I got it.
Submitted by raquel_e_fiallos (sacramento ca) 
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 Sexy triller
Suspenseful and thought-provoking, with the expected sexual tension between an icy, alluring blonde leading lady and a handsome, leading man; what we expect from Mr. Hitchcock.
Submitted by a reviewer (Saint Louis, MO)
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 A great follow-up film
A great follow-up film which employs great suspense and romance combined with witty and dark humour to create a fantasy thriller that stands as one of Hitchcock's greatest. Although this film doesn’t compare with the success of Psycho, it's still a great follow-up with critical success and great technical achievement at a time where there were no special effects. What would cinema be without Hitch. He revolutionised an entire genre and he's truly a legend of film. Tippi Herden played the enchanting blonde who engages in a romance with the leading man. She is a very well spoken intelligent lady who begins to fall in love but has to deal with his stubborn Mother, something that Hitch always loved to portray in his movies. While all this drama is going on, different species of birds begin a war on the human race. No motive, no logic, perhaps they just want to get even. This film is the most different film Hitch has ever directed. He usually showcases human villains that have motives to kill and torture victims. However, in this film he uses non-realistic elements and allows birds to be able to attack humans, even though they don't have the brain capacity to do so. This was a very interesting and clever way for Hitch to try to top his classic film Psycho. The Birds is a film which Alfred Hitchcock spoke as the most frightening and suspenseful film he's ever directed. That's really saying something. I guess this film speaks for itself because it is different to many other Hitch films. It still showcases his great consistency in starring the enchanting blonde, employing the stubborn overprotective mother and combining two stories which garner the audience attention. This is another masterpiece which is another milestone on a magnificent film-makers career.
Submitted by Joey 34 (L.A California)
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Another Classic Hitch film
This is another one of Hitch's classic films which made him even more noticed after his peak in Psycho. One of Norman Bates lines in Psycho was birds are harmless. This is not the case in this film. Hitch once said that this was perhaps his hardest and most suspensfull movie he's made. I have to agree witht his. Although this movie didn't do as well as Psycho, it still made alot of money and is considered to be one of HItch's greatest films. The amount of work needed to make this film must have been so hard for Hitch to gather. It involved blue and yellow screens, aswell as special cameras and tricks. Well if one man can pull off a pack of birds attacking humans in a film which was made in 1963, Hitch was the man to do it.
Submitted by Janet (Toronto, Canada)
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This classic Hitchcock film is horrifying and creepy! The special affects are amazing to be a "Classic!" What species are these "Birds?" I'm more terrified of all birds now more than ever!!
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Birds DVD Nothing equals The Birds for sheer terror when Alfred Hitchcock unleashes his foul friends in one of his most shocking and memorable masterpieces.
As beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town, preying on schoolchildren and residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Soon Mitch and Melanie are fighting for their lives against a deadly force that can't be explained and can't be stopped in one of Hollywood's most horrific films of nature gone berserk.
Source: Universal Studios Home Video
Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Collectors Edition
Letterbox -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - English, French
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Ending
Deleted Scenes
Documentary: ALL ABOUT THE BIRDS
Featurette: Suspense Story: National Press Club Hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel)
Shorts: THE BIRDS IS COMING - Newsreel
Bonus Footage: Tippi Hedren's Screen Test
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Biographies: Cast & Crew
Stills/Photos: Production Photos
DVD-ROM Features:
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