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Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite. She decides to follow lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) to his home in Bodega Bay, California. She apparently picks the wrong time to visit. The birds of Bodega Bay are becoming increasingly aggressive and soon every human being around comes under attack. Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette), a close friend of the Brenners, becomes one of the early casualties.
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Unlike most other films of its era, ''[[The Birds]]'' does not have a music score or an ending in the conventional sense. The soundtrack was supervised by [[Bernard Herrmann]]; bird cries and wingflaps were played on an expanded [[w:Trautonium|Trautonium]] (called the Mixtur Trautonium) by Oskar Sala, assisted by German composer Remi Gassmann.
The screenplay was written by [[Evan Hunter]]. [[Ub Iwerks]] helped out with the special effects involving the birds.
There was a sequel, "The Birds II: Land's End" (1994) with a new cast of characters. It fared poorly.
Not to be confused with [[The Birds (play)|the play]] by [[Aristophanes]].
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* [[San Francisco]]: The opening scenes take place here, before the action moves up the coast to Bodega Bay.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: Subverted in classic Hitch style. Suzanne Pleshette, who played Annie, suggested for her character's death that her ear should be found half torn off and bloody. Hitchcock sent her to the makeup department to let them make her ear look like that, but when filming the actual scene placed her body with her other side facing the camera so that the viewer never sees the torn off ear.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Why does Melanie enter a room filled with angry birds? Because Hitchcock says so. His specific response when Tippi Hedren questioned her motivation was "[[Money, Dear Boy|Your salary]]."
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Once the birds get wound up in large numbers, this becomes their favorite tactic.
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[[Category:The 100 Scariest Movie Moments]]
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[[Category:Films Based on Short Stories]]
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