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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780783240237
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783240236
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD20275D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1963
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Product Description:
AS BEAUTIFUL BLONDE MELANIE DANIELS ROLLS INTO BODEGA BAY IN PURSUIT OF ELIGIBLE BACHELOR MITCH BRENNER, 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. CONTAINS MANY BONUS FEATURES.
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Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes." From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. What really gets under your skin are not the bird skirmishes but the anxiety and the eerie quiet between attacks. The director elevated an unknown model, Tippi Hedren (mother of Melanie Griffith), to being his latest cool, blond leading lady, an experience that was not always easy on the much-pecked Ms. Hedren. Still, she returned for the next Hitchcock picture, the underrated Marnie. Treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, The Birds has grown into a classic and--despite the sci-fi trappings--one of Hitchcock's most serious films. --Robert Horton
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Hitchcock's 1963 drama/horror/thriller "The Birds" details the story of a city woman (Tippi Hedren) going to the rural coastal town Bodega Bay to play a coquettish prank on a lawyer whom she met in the city (Rod Taylor). As she starts to get to know the town the birds mysteriously attack in force.
"The Birds" might well be the first official nature-runs-amok flick, which were made hugely popular a dozen years later with the release of "Jaws," the film that opened the Pandora's box to ... Read More
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1 THE BIRDS
2 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
3 PSYCHO
4 VERTIGO
5 MARNIE
6 LIFEBOAT
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STRANGELY Universal started releasing 2 disc SE titles from the 2005 restored Hitchcock box, then abruptly...stopped
PSYCHO
VERTIGO
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
REAR WINDOW (?) so far Maybe TORN CURTAIN and ROPE
MARNIE is from the 2005 MASTERPIECE SET, but before they decided to make them super deluxe standalone titles in 'book' form
LIFEBOAT ... Read More
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Hitchcock made some good films, such as North by Northwest. But The Birds was not one of them (nor Psycho). Direction and writing are nigh nonexistent. Was Hitchcock on tranquilizers while doing this film? If not for the special effects crew this film would be wretched, as is sometimes the case in Hollywood (such as The Mist, another example of extraordinary special effects talent mismatched with horrid direction and writing). I know, saying Hitchcock made bad films is like saying Michelangelo couldn't ... Read More
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*exhales deeply* 20 horror reviews down, 11 to go before I reach my "31 reviews for 31 days of October" goal. With Halloween at the tail end, October is definitely the "month of horror" should there ever be one, and "The Birds" is a definite horror masterpiece. Although this movie is over 40 years old, watching it today, there really isn't any "dated" feel to it, unlike some other horror movies of the time (such as "Blood Feast", although that movie is still enjoyable B-movie gold).
"The Birds" ... Read More
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This film must have shocked audiences in the early sixties, the same way that Jaws, shocked audiences in the mid-seventies. A dark perspective of nature vs. man, which had some, state of the art, visual effects, for the times. Scary and effective, and one of Hitchcock's best editing sequences, namely the scene, where the birds attack, at the gas station, which ends in disaster and destruction. Even though the film's subject matter is heavy, it's presented in such a way, that the viewer is aware, that it's only ... Read More
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