Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It’s enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.

Download Birds, The

Birds, The DVD Release

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: Rod Taylor; Jessica Tandy; Suzanne Pleshette; Tippi Hedren; Veronica Cartwright; Ethel Griffies; Charles McGraw; Ruth McDevitt; Lonny Chapman; Joe Mantell; Doodles Weaver; Malcolm Atterbury; John McGovern; Karl Swenson; Richard Deacon;

IMDB Rating: 7.80 out of 10 (29918 votes)