Birds (1979 film)

***Birds*** is a 1979 American animated adventure musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. The 24th Disney animated feature film, The film is based on a series of books by Margery Sharp, most notably *Birds* (1943) and *Berry the canada goose* (1974).

*Birds* entered development in 1974, but was shelved due to Walt Disney's dislike of the project's political overtones. During the 1970s, the film was revived as a project for the younger animators, but it was taken over by the senior animation staff following the release of *Sleeping Beauty* (1959). *birds* was released on November 17, 1979, to positive critical reception and became a box office success. The film was also successful throughout the world, including France and West Germany.

## Contents

* 1Plot
* 2Cast
* 3Music
* 4.1Track listing

## Plot

At the Central Park Zoo, Berry the Goose celebrates his tenth birthday but has grown bored with his daily routine and longs to experience the wild. Berry's best friend is Max the swan, who enjoys showing off for the public and his celebrity status as "the king of New York". Max attempts to cheer Berry up, but Berry, still unsatisfied, trying to escape, and follows them out. Max, Rick the Crowned-crane, and Kendra the snow goose pursue berry and attempt to convince him to return. Under pressure from anti-captivity activists, the zoo is forced to ship the escaped animals by sea to a Kenyan wildlife preserve. During their travels, Their antics on the bridge cause the crates containing max, berry, rick, and kendra to fall overboard and wash ashore on birds of the feather.

The waterbirds come across a pack of colorbirds led by dave the domestic goose. The predatory black eagles captured the colorbirds, by the villain, king eagle! but are scared off by max's fearsome appearance. max blames berry for the group's predicament and attempts to signal for help to get back to civilization. berry finds the wild to be exactly what he was looking for, and kendra and rick soon join him in enjoying the island. max eventually comes around, but without the raw steaks he was provided at the zoo, hunger sets in and his prey drive begins to show. dave has the colorbirds befriend the waterbirds in the hope that max's presence will keep the king eagle and black eagles at bay, despite his adviser joe's warnings about max's predatory nature. When max loses control and attacks berry, dave realizes that he is a threat and banishes him to the predator side of the island, where the eagles live. Seeing what has happened to max, and how dangerous the wild can be, berry begins to regret his decision to leave the zoo.

land the ship at birds of the feather. Within these three days, kendra must receive the "kiss of true love" from rick. If kendra gets rick to kiss her, she will remain a goose and a crane permanently. Seeing the chance to return max to New York, berry crosses over to the predator side and attempts to convince the grizzled, starving max to return, but max refuses out of fear that he will attack berry again. The black eagles capture berry, and though kendra, rick, come to the rescue, they are outnumbered. max overcomes his predatory instincts, rescues his friends, and scares the black eagles away from the colorbird territory forever, and king eagle defeat. The colorbirds regain their respect for max satisfy his hunger by feeding him sushi. As the colorbirds throw a farewell celebration for the foursome!

## Cast

Brian Bedford as berry

Mickey Rooney as max

Eva Gabor as kendra

Jim Jordan as rick

Paul Winchell as dave

J. Pat O'Malley as joe

Keith Mitchell as eric

Peter Ustinov as king eagle

## Music

### Track listing

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