Not the best Hitchcock, but good

Rating: 8/10 (9 August 2006)

Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) arrives to a small Northern California town and notices the birds have gone crazy.They start attacking people for what ever reason and even killing them.Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) doesn't represent the best of Hitchcock.I could say it's slightly overrated.But still it makes a pretty good thriller, a movie that will keep you nailed to your seats till the end.Tippi Hedren as well as the rest of the cast does an excellent job.Rod Taylor is great as Mitch Brenner.Jessica Tandy is brilliant as Lydia Brenner.Suzanne Pleshette is wonderful as Annie Hayworth.Veronica Cartwright is Cathy Brenner, and she's doing very good job.There are some classic scenes in the movie.My favorite one is the scene where Melanie is in the phone booth watching the birds causing a disaster.It looks like the world is coming to an end outside the phone booth and Melanie is there to witness that.This may not be the master's best work, but thinking what some of the modern filmmakers would have done with birds as villains of the movie...