Word: hedren
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...lettering of the titles and credits comes on, only to be pecked from the screen by a squadron of crazed starlings. Having hinted at the ornithophobic horror to come, Director Alfred Hitchcock goes nattering on with an hour of some silly plot-boiling about a flirtatious society girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn schoolmarm (Suzanne Pleshette), an Oedipus wreck (Rod Taylor) and a pair of lovebirds. Hitchcock addicts will just be getting jittery for their first fix of gore when it suddenly becomes clear that the birds is coming: man's feathered friends set themselves to wipe out an entire...
...attacked, trained birds are used to fly menacingly close to the running children; mechanical birds, who peck at innocent napes, have been stitched to coat collars. Then four different strips of film are superimposed and cut into each other, drawing migratory flights photographed far away into the attack. Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock's new "classic beauty" discovery, is attacked by coveys of birds and desperately bats them off with a flashlight; to shoot the minute-long sequence, six days were required-with a dozen trained birds attacking, plenty of stuffed birds for Tippi to swat; the final illusion shows...
...HEDREN Osseo, Minn...