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The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Loosely based on the 1952 story of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, it focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California, over the course of a few days. The film stars Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, alongside Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du Maurier's title and concept of unexplained bird attacks. The movie follows Melanie Daniels a rich socialite, follows Mitch, a lawyer, to his home in Bodega Bay to play a practical joke on him. Things take a bizarre turn when the birds in the area begin to attack the people there.

The film originally received mixed reviews upon its initial release, however, the reception improves and it was considered to be the greatest horror-thriller film to date in 1963. In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry.

Plot
In San Francisco, a female character named Melanie Daniels (Rod Taylor) goes to Davidson's Pet Shop to buy a mynah bird for her aunt. She witnesses a swarm of birds flying throughout the city, and she meets a man named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) who mistakes her for a shop clerk, and she tries to get a lovebird, but the bird flies over the store, and it was later put it back. She goes to an elevator and goes down the hallway to Mitch's apartment with their birds to put the birds in his hallway, a neighbor (Richard Deacon) tells her that Mitch spends his weekends at his family home in a small town up the coast called Bodega Bay, and won't return until Monday. She eventually drives her car to the town of Bodega Bay in the countryside, and she goes to the post office and asks a general store owner in the little town about Mitch's family. He points across the bay to the Brenners' house where Mitch is staying with his mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy), and his 11-year-old sister Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). She went to Annie's (Suzanne Pleshette) house, the school teacher who was a lovely woman around Melanie's age, and she understands immediately that Melanie came here to flirt with Mitch. She goes back to the town and writes a letter to Cathy, and she goes on a small boat and floats across the sea and she delivers the birds to his house. She sails back to Bodega Bay and she sees that Mitch was happy about this and he drives to the town and he goes to the docks to see her. But as she was very close to the docks, one seagull suddenly swoops down and gashes on her, bleeding her and they went to a restaurant, not wanting Mitch to realize the lengths to which she went to get his attention, she lies and tells him that her primary reason for coming to Bodega Bay was to visit Annie, a friend of hers from school.

She goes back to Annie's house, Melanie shares a drink with her, and Annie reveals that she and Mitch were lovers once. The cool reception she got from Lydia spoiled their affair, but she relocated to Bodega Bay anyway, wanting to be near Mitch. The next day,