The Birds (1963)

We’re winding down February’s theme of WOMEN IN CRISIS and for our last vintage selection we got a case of Crisis in front of and behind the camera. We couldn’t wrap up without a little Hitchcock and the struggles of Tippi Hedren regarding some calculated aviary beasts. Alfred Hitchcock wanted Tippi to be his personal leading lady human doll that he could control and throw birds at. He got two films out of her before she ran away and today’s talk is of the first. We’re discussing the 1963 horror hit “THE BIRDS” starring Tippi, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy & Suzanne Pleshette. The birds couldn’t have picked a better idiot town than Bodega Bay to spiral these humans off into a local apocalypse. If I were a seagull, it would be fun as hell to dive bomb folks. I would be just like a typical seagull in that way. They should have had some California Condors plucking the small children off the street. Like any other horror that came after it, this movie is full of human beings making the worst decisions. Here’s a link if it still works: https://archive.org/details/the-birds

 

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