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 * 1) Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"[[image:http://www.boingboing.net/images/_movies.yahoo.com_images_hv_photo_movie_pix_universal_pictures_the_birds_alfred_hitchcock_birds2.jpg width="250" height="200"]]

After Alfred Hitchcock's making of his movie "Psycho", he had to find another great movie idea to top his earlier films.

Hithcock found a short story called "The Birds", but he did not like the plot line of the story. After conversing with fellow workers, he decided to trash the story, but just keep the main ideas and the title.

Here is a summary of the movie.

Melanie Daniels ([|Tippi Hedren] ) is a young wealthy [|socialite] who meets a lawyer, Mitch Brenner ([|Rod Taylor] ), in a San Francisco pet shop. Mitch pretends to mistake her for a salesperson, which infuriates Melanie and leads her to inquire as to the reason for his behavior. He mentions a previous encounter that he had with her. Intrigued by Mitch, Melanie finds the address of his home in Bodega Bay, California. She drives there and visits his house by sneaking across the small harbor in a motor boat, leaving a note. As she is heading back across the bay, a seagull swoops down and inflicts a cut on her head. Over the next few days, the avian attacks continue, as Melanie's relationship with Mitch, his clinging mother, Lydia ([|Jessica Tandy] ), his young sister, Cathy ([|Veronica Cartwright] ), and Cathy's teacher (who is also Mitch's ex lover) Annie Hayworth ([|Suzanne Pleshette] ) develops. The second strange bird incident occurs when Melanie stays for the night at Hayworth's house and a gull kills itself upon hitting the front door. The next attack occurs at Cathy's party. Avian violence escalates when Lydia discovers a friend dead in his bedroom. After another attack by crows at the school, an argument erupts at the local bar. One resident believes the attacks are a sign of the [|apocalypse], but an out-of-town woman yells at them for scaring her children. An old woman ([|Ethel Griffies] ), an amateur ornithologist, insists that calling birds' behavior //attacks// is an exaggeration, and no bird species flocks and attacks. Despite her words, a motorist is attacked while filling his car with gasoline; he is knocked unconscious, and the gasoline continues to pump out onto the street. An explosion and fire result, and more deaths occur when there's another attack. While hiding inside the bar, the scared mother believes Melanie is the cause of these attacks. After this attack subsides, Melanie and Mitch find Annie dead on her front porch and Cathy crying at the window. Melanie and Mitch's family take refuge in Mitch's house, boarding up the windows. The house is attacked by the birds and they almost manage to break through the doors. In the evening, when everyone else is asleep, Melanie hears noises from the upper floor and finds that the birds have broken through the roof. They attack her, sealing her in the room until Mitch comes to her rescue. Lydia and Mitch tend to Melanie, but determine she must get to a hospital. A sea of landed birds ripples menacingly around them as they leave the house but do not attack, aside from a few pecks. The radio reports several smaller bird attacks in nearby communities. Mitch drives the car slowly towards the road before picking up speed. The film concludes with the car driving away, down the coast road and out of sight, as thousands of birds watch.

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