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The Birds

60th Anniversary Screening - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Poster
The Birds Poster (Source: themoviedb.org)
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Rod Taylor (Mitch Brenner), Tippi Hedren (Melanie Daniels), Jessica Tandy (Lydia Brenner), Veronica Cartwright (Cathy Brenner), Suzanne Pleshette (Annie Hayworth), Lonny Chapman (Diner owner), Ethel Griffies (Mrs. Bundy), Doreen Lang (Hysterical Mother in Diner), Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. MacGruder)
Plot Outline

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.

Genre
Horror
Runtime
119 minutes
Production country
US
Released
1963
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