The Birds
Melanie Daniels meets Mitch Brenner in a San Francisco pet store and decides to follow him home. She brings with her the gift of two love birds and they strike up a romance. But it slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
13 September 1895, Coldwater, Michigan, USA
October 22, 1950 in Pasco, Washington, USA
15 March 1907, Columbus, Ohio, USA
31 January 1937, New York City, New York, USA
9 May 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 April 1878, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
22 February 1902, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
21 December 1915, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 July 1954, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 May 1921, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 December 1951, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 May 1914, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
19 July 1919, La Grande, Oregon, USA
April 18, 1916 in New York, New York, USA
18 July 1934, Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA
6 May 1912, New York City, New York, USA
14 November 1916, Mt. Carmel, Illinois, USA
19 January 1930, New Ulm, Minnesota, USA
11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
15 February 1915, Gisborne, New Zealand
6 October 1922, California, USA
23 July 1908, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1920, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
13 August 1899, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
20 April 1949, Bristol, England, UK
20 February 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 May 1912, Los Angeles, California, USA
November 8, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA
March 21, 2015
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.
January 18, 2013
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."
September 21, 2007
Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.
October 06, 2013
Though it lacks the psychological depth of Hitchcock's greatest works, it's characterised by a nightmarish simplicity.
September 29, 2015
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.
March 28, 2017
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 ...
October 09, 2012
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
July 29, 2015
The picture pursues these false clues with excessive long-windedness and occasional fatuity. It is a tribute to Hitchcock's mastery of his craft that, even so, he makes overpoweringly real the menace of the birds.
December 16, 2011
The Birds represents better than any other Hitchcock film the extreme polarities of his universe: vicious unpredictability and moral and emotional disorder on the one hand, and rigorous stylistic control and formal organization, on the other.
October 07, 2008
The movie flaps to a plotless end.
October 06, 2013
This Hitchcock classic somehow strayed from favour for a while, yet in the realm of popular mythology it is now rivalled only by Vertigo or Psycho.
October 09, 2012
Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.
