The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Loosely based on the 1952 story of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, it focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California. The film stars Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright.
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The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Loosely based on the 1952 story of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, it focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California. The film stars Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. In 2016, The Birds was deemed \”culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\” by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. In the early 1960s, socialite Melanie Daniels meets lawyer Mitch Brenner who is looking to buy lovebirds for his sister Cathy’s 11th birthday. The following evening, as Melanie dines with the Brenners, sparrows swarm the house through the chimney. After, Mitch insists she delay driving back to San Francisco and stay the night. The next morning, Lydia visits her neighbor and discovers his eyeless corpse, pecked lifeless by birds, and flees in horror. During a lull, Melanie investigates a sound in the attic and is attacked by a fluttering of birds, trapping her until Mitch pulls her out of the car and escorts her away. The car slowly drives away as thousands of birds are ominically perching for the film. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping the title and concept of unexplained bird attacks.
In 2013, the film was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD with a new cast and a new storyline. The movie is now available on both Blu-Ray and DVD for the first time in more than 40 years, and has sold more than 1.5 million copies in the U.S. and over 1.2 million in the UK. It is also available on DVD in the United Kingdom and Australia, with the UK version of the film being released on the same day as the UK release of the US version. The UK version has a different cast and storyline, but the US release is the same as that of the UK one. The U.K. release of The Birds is available on the Blu- ray and DVD in both the UK and the UK versions of the movie, with a different storyline and a different ending. The US release of this film is the UK’s version of “The Birds” on the DVD in which the character of Melanie Daniels is injured by a flock of crows and is rescued by Mitch and the Brenner family. The British version of this movie is released on November 14, 2013, and includes a deleted scene between Mitch and Melanie. The American release is on November 17, 2013. The United States release of ” The Birds” is on September 14, 2014, and it is released in the US on September 19, 2014. The UK release is also on September 20, 2015, and in Australia on September 21, 2015.
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