The Birds

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Runtime: 1 Hr. 59 Min. Rating: Release Year: 1963 Film Info: Screening Format: DCP Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Screenwriter: Evan Hunter Cinematographer: Robert Burks Editor: George Tomasini Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright

Cast member Veronica Cartwright in attendance for screening!

It took Alfred Hitchcock three years to follow up Psycho, but when Hitch reemerged in 1963, it was with this classic thriller of looming dread and unprovoked violence, in which all of the birds in a small Northern California town start to inexplicably attack the populace. Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, and Jessica Tandy starred, and MFF 2019 special guest Veronica Cartwright (Alien, The X-Files) appeared in her first major film role. Beware the skies!

"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."
- Village Voice

"Mr. Hitchcock and his associates have constructed a horror film that should raise the hackles of the most courageous and put goose-pimples on the toughest hide."
- New York Times

"Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film, and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings."
- Chicago Reader

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The Birds

"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."
- Village Voice

"Mr. Hitchcock and his associates have constructed a horror film that should raise the hackles of the most courageous and put goose-pimples on the toughest hide."
- New York Times

"Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film, and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings."
- Chicago Reader

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The Birds

"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." - Village Voice

"Mr. Hitchcock and his associates have constructed a horror film that should raise the hackles of the most courageous and put goose-pimples on the toughest hide." - New York Times

"Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film, and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings." - Chicago Reader

Share

About Milwaukee Film

"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."
- Village Voice

"Mr. Hitchcock and his associates have constructed a horror film that should raise the hackles of the most courageous and put goose-pimples on the toughest hide."
- New York Times

"Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film, and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings."
- Chicago Reader