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· Year: 1963
· Also known as: Die Vögel
· Director: Alfred Hitchcock
· Writer: Evan Hunter, Daphne Du Maurier (story)
· Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor
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Part of the Birds series.
· Followed by The Birds II: Land's End.
· Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier.
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Amazon.com
· DVD: The Best of Hitchcock 2 · VHS: The Best of Hitchcock 2 · VHS: The Hitchcock Collection · VHS: Essential Hitchcock Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.de
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A woman follows a man she's just met out to his home by the shore and begins to work herself into his life. However, before long, the town is attacked, for seemingly no reason, by vicious birds beyond count.
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RATING
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83
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ATMOSPHERE
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GORE
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The Birds is a very good movie, intelligently written and featuring excellent, thoughtful directing from Alfred Hitchcock. As a character piece it is well-told, and as a siege film (for that, of course, is what much of the latter part of the film is), it's excellent. However, I've never thought the two parts merged well enough. Or, really, at all. (And, yes, I know that's part of the film's whole point.) It's a hell of a jolt when The Birds switches gears, and that jolt never fails to leave me feeling dissatisfied. On top of that, the special effect birds--and this is a comment from a cinephile raised in a post-Star Wars environment--look fake, a factor that does not help the film's verisimilitude. |
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