Review of The Birds (1963) by Pauline Kael for The New Yorker — 11 Sep 2017
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 village on the California coast.
Why did the birds go to war? Hitchcock does not tell, and the movie flaps to a plotless end.
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This review of The Birds (1963) was written by Pauline Kael and published by The New Yorker on 11 Sep 2017.
The Birds has generally received very positive reviews.
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