When a wealthy socialite (Tippi Hedren) follows a charming lawyer (Rod Taylor) to his coastal town, the two find themselves in the middle of a truly terrifying disaster: the birds in town, without warning or reason, have gone on the attack. Hitchcock, adapting Daphne DeMaurier’s short story, created the film without music, instead intensifying the sounds of the natural world into an otherworldly, haunting score that taps our deepest fears. (U.S., 1963, 119m)
“A major work of cinematic art, and cinematic is the operative term here” –Andrew Sarris, Village Voice
