Melanie Daniels meets Rod Taylor in a pet shop and follows him up the Californmian coast to Bodega Bay where all the wild birds suddenly, and inexplicably, turn vicious and start attacking the townsfolk causing chaos, terror and destruction.
One of the Hitchcock's that everyone has seen at one time or another. A deceptively complex thriller that flows exceedingly well building to a climax before, quite daringly, just finishing with no explantion as to what has happened or what is going to. Tippi Hedren alas is no actress and is pretty wooden throughout but one wonders if Hitch knew this and used her blandness to bounce the rest of the film off. Possibly if there had been an an excellent actress in the role the birds wouldn't have been such a focus. Whatever, it's one of those films where any criticism seems pointless. Hitch on pretty near top form.
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