Product Information
The residents in a Californian coastal area are inexplicably besieged by flocks of birds.Product Identifiers
EAN5050582888386
eBay Product ID (ePID)113772997
Product Key Features
ActorEthel Griffies, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor
Film/TV TitleThe Birds
DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
Release Year2012
FeaturesAugmented Reality Edition\All About the Birds\Making Of\Universal News Reel 2 Stories\Tippi Hedren's Screen Test\Theatrical Trailer\Storyboard Sequence\Deleted Scene, script pages\Alternative Ending, sketches and storyboards\Production Photographs
GenreThriller, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationIn THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Wealthy, reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds, Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house. One day, during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister, a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact, it signals the beginning of a massive avian assault on the residents of the town--a mysterious assault that no one can explain and from which no one might come out alive. Hedren (Melanie Griffith's mother) carries the picture in her first film role ever, embarking on a career as an icy-cool leading lady. Loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier story and a Santa Monica newspaper story, "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes," THE BIRDS also features groundbreaking special effects.
ScreenwriterEvan Hunter
Special EffectsLawrence A. Hampton
AuthorDaphne Du Maurier
SoundBernard Herrmann
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleThe Birds
Director of PhotographyRobert Burks
Consumer AdviceContains moderate threat and horror