All About 'The Birds'
2000
80 minutes
Overview
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials and scenes from the film. Hitchcock's daughter Pat, production designer Robert Boyle, screenwriter Evan Hunter, matte artist Albert Whitlock's colleagues Syd Dutton and Bill Taylor, storyboard artist Harold Michelson, Hitchcock collaborator Hilton Green, actors Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright and Rod Taylor, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, author Robin Wood, makeup artist Howard Smit, and composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven Smith all contribute valuable input to Hitchcock's memorable classic.
Top Cast
Tippi Hedren
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Rod Taylor
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Veronica Cartwright
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Patricia Hitchcock
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Robert F. Boyle
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Evan Hunter
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Harold Michelson
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Hilton A. Green
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Robin Wood
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Howard Smit
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Martin Balsam
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