Film

In one of the master of suspense’s most enduring classics, Tippi Hedren makes her big-screen debut as an icy blonde socialite who heads to Bodega Bay in pursuit of the handsome bachelor she has just met in a pet store, hoping to play a practical joke on him. From this romantic-comedy set up, Hitchcock moves to far stranger, more disturbing territory: soon after the heroine’s arrival, apocalyptic swarms of birds descend on the small fishing town and begin attacking the residents.