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The Birds (1963)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
'The Birds Is Coming' the advance posters twittered ungrammatically but with justifiable excitement. With death dropping blandly out of a clear sky - its menace magnified into apocalypse from the crop-dusting scene in North by Northwest - this is Hitchcock at his best. Full of subterranean hints as to the ways in which people cage each other, it's fierce and Freudian as well as great cinematic fun, with ample fodder for the amateur psychologist following up on Hitch's tortuous involvement with his leading ladies.Author: TM
User reviews of this film
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- Posner said...
- Posted on Apr 25 2011 16:31 The birds is coming and it sucks!e comment you type in this box will appear on the site
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- kirk said...
- Posted on Mar 03 2008 19:07 a brilliant film of its time and quite scary (for 1963 )towards the end -a Hitchcock classic
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- jessica said...
- Posted on Feb 29 2008 16:04 omg, i thought this movie sucked but im thinking that has a lot to do with the fact that it was made forever ago and ... it sure doesn't have the technology we have today in producing movies. plus, on the DVD- why are all the characters eyes are blue?
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Cast & crew
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Ruth McDevitt, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 119 mins
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