![]() They find Annie's body outside, killed by the crows while protecting Cathy. Mitch and Melanie go to Annie's house to fetch Cathy. Bundy, an ornithologist who scoffed at the reports of birds attacking, sits in stunned silence. A distraught woman blames Melanie for the attacks, claiming they began with her arrival. Mitch saves her, and they get back inside the diner. During the escalating fire, Melanie and others rush out but more gulls attack, and Melanie takes refuge in a telephone booth. The spilled gasoline is accidentally ignited by an unaware bystander's cigar fumes, causing an explosion. When gulls attack a gas station attendant, Mitch and several other men assist him outside. Rather than leaving the students safely in the building, they evacuate them, and the crows attack, injuring several children. ![]() As Melanie waits outside the schoolhouse, a large flock of crows slowly engulfs the jungle gym behind her. As Lydia recovers at home, she fears for Cathy's safety, and Melanie offers to pick her up at school. She discovers his eyeless corpse, pecked lifeless by birds, and flees in horror. The next morning, Lydia visits her neighbor to discuss why their chickens will not eat. Later, Mitch insists she delay driving back to San Francisco and stay the night. Later that evening, as Melanie dines with the Brenners, sparrows swarm the house through the chimney. During a game, the children are attacked and some injured by gulls. A dead gull is found at the threshold.Īt Cathy's party, Melanie privately tells Mitch about her troubled past and her mother running off with another man when Melanie was Cathy's age. Shortly after, there is a violent thud at Annie's front door. Mitch calls Melanie and invites her to Cathy's birthday party being held the next day. Lydia expresses her disapproval of Melanie to Mitch due to her exaggerated reputation, as reported in gossip columns. ![]() ![]() At the farm, Lydia's hens are suddenly refusing to eat. Melanie returns to Annie's house and asks to spend the night. Lydia arrives and meets Melanie, and Mitch announces to Lydia that he is inviting Melanie to dinner. Mitch tends to her head wound inside a diner. As Melanie approaches the wharf, a gull attacks her. Mitch spots Melanie during her retreat and drives into town to meet her at the dock. Melanie rents a boat in town and crosses the bay to leave the lovebirds at the Brenner farm discreetly. Annie previously dated Mitch but ended it due to Mitch's cold, overbearing mother, Lydia, who dislikes any woman in Mitch's life. ![]() Melanie is directed to the local teacher at Bodega, Annie Hayworth, to learn Cathy's name. Melanie buys the lovebirds to make amends and drives to Bodega Bay after she learns Mitch has gone to his family's farm for the weekend. He discloses his prior knowledge of her and that his ruse was intended to make her appreciate being on the other end of a joke. Mitch tests Melanie's knowledge of birds, which she fails. Recognizing Melanie from her court appearance regarding a practical joke gone awry, Mitch pretends to mistake her for a shop employee. Plot Īt a San Francisco pet store, socialite Melanie Daniels meets lawyer Mitch Brenner, who is looking to buy lovebirds for his sister Cathy's 11th birthday. In 2016, The Birds was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. The award, however, went to the only other nominee, Emil Kosa Jr., for Cleopatra. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du Maurier's title and concept of unexplained bird attacks.Īt the 36th Academy Awards, Ub Iwerks was nominated for Best Special Effects for his work on the film. The film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, alongside Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, and Veronica Cartwright. Loosely based on the 1952 short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, it focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California, over the course of a few days. The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror- thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ![]()
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