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The Birds
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Not Rated
1963
2h
Mystery
,
Horror
,
and more
7.6
94%
83%
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A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
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Cast of The Birds
Tippi Hedren
Melanie Daniels
Rod Taylor
Mitch Brenner
Jessica Tandy
Lydia Brenner
Suzanne Pleshette
Annie Hayworth
Veronica Cartwright
Cathy Brenner
Ethel Griffies
Mrs. Bundy
Charles McGraw
Sebastian Sholes
Ruth McDevitt
Mrs. MacGruder
Lonny Chapman
Deke Carter
Joe Mantell
Traveling Salesman at Diner's Bar
Doodles Weaver
Fisherman Helping with Rental Boat
Malcolm Atterbury
Deputy Al Malone
John McGovern
Postal Clerk
Karl Swenson
Drunken Doomsayer in Diner
Richard Deacon
Mitch's City Neighbor
Elizabeth Wilson
Helen Carter
Bill Quinn
Sam
Doreen Lang
Hysterical Mother in Diner
Alfred Hitchcock
Pet Store Customer (uncredited) / Director / Producer
Morgan Brittany
Brunette Girl at Birthday Party (uncredited)
Darlene Conley
Waitress (uncredited)
Betsy Hale
Little Girl (uncredited)
Dal McKennon
Sam the Cook (uncredited)
Mike Monteleone
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Renn Reed
Girl at Birthday Party (uncredited)
Arnold Roberts
Townsman (uncredited)
Jeannie Russell
School Child (uncredited)
Rory Stevens
Scared Boy in Diner (uncredited)
Evan Hunter
Writer
Daphne du Maurier
Writer
The Birds Ratings & Reviews
MaxFarrok
March 6, 2025
It was a great movie 50 years ago.
The New Yorker
Brendan Gill
Hard as it may be to believe of a Hitchcock, it doesn't arouse suspense, which is, of course, what justifies and transforms the sadism that lies at the heart of every thriller. Here the sadism is all too nakedly, repellently present.
Niagara Gazette
Michael Calleri
Suzanne Pleshette, as forlorn school teacher Annie Hayworth, shines. Jessica Tandy is perfect as Mitch's brittle, suspicious mother.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Riddled with alarming moments - primarily from wandering down dark hallways alone, but also from sitting in silence waiting for the next inevitable avian ambush.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
The only characters in the film who aren't birdbrains are the birds.
The Hollywood Reporter
James Powers
Hitchcock prolongs his prelude to horror for more than half the film, playing with audience suspense with comedy and romance while he sets his stage. The horror when it comes is a hair-raiser ...
America Magazine
Moira Walsh
The picture pursues these false clues with excessive long-windedness and occasional fatuity. It is a tribute to Hitchcock's mastery of his craft that, even so, he makes overpoweringly real the menace of the birds.
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
In the thick of an impeccable narrative that pays deep attention to all those involved, the great filmmaker manages to reach far inside the psychological chasm and find a rich inspiration.
Village Voice
Andrew Sarris
Drawing from the relatively invisible literary talents of Daphne DuMaurier and Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock has fashioned a major work of cinematic art, and "cinematic" is the operative term here, not "literary" or "sociological."
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Leo Goldsmith
The Birds represents better than any other Hitchcock film the extreme polarities of his universe: vicious unpredictability and moral and emotional disorder on the one hand, and rigorous stylistic control and formal organization, on the other.
Common Sense Media
Joyce Slaton
Classic Hitchcock horror film still gives the chills.
Three Movie Buffs
Scott Nash
The only thing dated is the special effects. The suspense holds up very well.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Although not as horrifically shocking as "Psycho," "The Birds" is a more sophisticated film, and represents a high watermark in the prolific career of a true maestro of cinema.
TIME Magazine
The movie flaps to a plotless end.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Perhaps only a director of Hitchcock's caliber can make such a fowl story fly.
Variety
Variety Staff
Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film (1963), and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Unmistakably, one of the master's best.
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