Birds

Release Date: 1992-03-01, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 1999-08-03, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2000-03-28, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

DVDs. Birds

Nothing equals The Birds for sheer terror when Alfred Hitchcock unleashes his foul friends in one of his most shocking and memorable masterpieces. As beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town preying on schoolchildren and residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Soon Mitch and Melanie are fighting for their lives against a deadly force that can't be explained and can't be stopped in one of Hollywood's most horrific films of nature gone berserk. Starring: Tippi Hedren Suzanne Pleshette Jessica Tandy Rod Taylor Veronica Cartwright Malcolm AtterburyDirected by: Alfred Hitchcock

In THE BIRDS Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding follow-up to PSYCHO the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Tippi Hedren Melanie Griffith's mother carries the picture in her first film role ever embarking on a career as an icy-cool leading lady. Loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier story and a Santa Monica newspaper account "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes" THE BIRDS also features groundbreaking special effects that in 1963 surprised and delighted audiences. Wealthy reformed party girl Melanie Daniels Hedren enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner Rod Taylor in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house. One day during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister a flock of birds attacks th