'The Birds’: The Horrific True Story Behind the Making of the Hitchcock Classic

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One of Alfred Hitchcock's most well-known and adored works, The Birds from 1963, is a classic that has influenced horror cinema for the past 60 years.

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. The making of The Birds was, however, nearly as terrifying as the film itself, with hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted on fake-looking mechanical birds,

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Real birds attacking the cast and crew, and Alfred Hitchcock allegedly harassing Tippi Hedren nonstop.The Birds,

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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his follow-up to Psycho, was based on the short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

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The screenplay was written by author Evan Hunter, who was given free rein by director Alfred Hitchcock to express his vision without worrying about

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The logistics of how it would be staged and photographed. The technical issues would prove to be significant in the end.

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