Feathered Friends?

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2013)

Alfred Hitchcock directs this intriguing thriller that stars Tippi Hedren as San Francisco socialite Melanie Daniels, who becomes infatuated by lawyer Mitch Brenner(played by Rod Taylor) after he dared play a practical joke on her in a pet shop. She decides to get back at him by going to his island home at Bodega Bay with a caged bird as a present. On the rowboat trip over, she is attacked by a bird, which gets Mitch's sympathy, and he takes her home where his mother Lydia(played by Jessica Tandy) and younger sister Cathy(played by Veronica Cartwright) are staying. Soon, birds start gathering in huge flocks, until they start attacking the town, and possibly the world... Effective horror film with good cast and script, and memorable bird attack scenes. Doesn't make a great deal of sense ultimately, as it raises far more questions than it answers, but nonetheless is a quite striking thriller.