The Birds (1963)

Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Main cast
Tippi Hedren; Rod Taylor; Suzanne Pleshette; Veronica Cartwright; Ethel Griffies

Genres
Horror

Description
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.


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