"The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It focuses on a series of sudden, unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California over the course of a few days. The film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (in her screen debut), supported by Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du"
"by a jury of ten. The 1968 Polish motion picture ""Matthew's Days"" by Witold Leszczyński was based on the novel. The Birds (novel) The Birds, original Nynorsk title Fuglane, is a novel by Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas. It was first released in 1957, and has been translated into several languages, including English. The story revolves around the inner world of Matthew, who is mentally challenged and lives with his sister. Being regarded as one of Vesaas' most important novels, it was included in the major Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag's 30 picks for ""Norway's national literature"" both in 1967 and"
"The Birds (novel) The Birds, original Nynorsk title Fuglane, is a novel by Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas. It was first released in 1957, and has been translated into several languages, including English. The story revolves around the inner world of Matthew, who is mentally challenged and lives with his sister. Being regarded as one of Vesaas' most important novels, it was included in the major Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag's 30 picks for ""Norway's national literature"" both in 1967 and 1996. In 2007, the Norwegian Festival of Literature included it in a best-of list of 25 Norwegian literary works, picked"
"novel into French and sent it to a publisher in Paris, who she learned was also Ms. du Maurier's [publisher] only after ""Rebecca"" became a worldwide success. The novels have identical plots and even some identical episodes."" Author Frank Baker believed that du Maurier had plagiarised his novel ""The Birds"" (1936) in her short story ""The Birds"" (1952). Du Maurier had been working as a reader for Baker's publisher Peter Davies at the time he submitted the book. When Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, based on du Maurier's story, Baker considered, but was advised against, pursuing costly litigation"
"Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 ""The Birds"", loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's story of the same name, which tells the tale of sudden attacks on people by violent flocks of birds. Ken Loach's admired 1969 ""Kes"", based on Barry Hines's 1968 novel ""A Kestrel for a Knave"", tells a story of a boy coming of age by training a kestrel. Parasitoids have inspired science fiction authors and screenwriters to create disgusting and terrifying parasitic alien species that kill their human hosts, such as in Ridley Scott's 1979 film ""Alien"". Plants too, both real and invented, play many roles in literature and"
"Birdy (film) Birdy is a 1984 American drama film based on William Wharton's 1978 novel of the same name. Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. The film focuses on the friendship between Birdy (Modine) and Al Columbato (Cage), two teenage boys living in a working-class neighborhood in 1960s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The story is presented in flashbacks, with a frame narrative depicting Birdy and Al's traumatic experiences upon serving in the Vietnam War. Parker initially turned down an opportunity to direct, believing that the complex book could not be successfully adapted for a feature film. The"
"The Thorn Birds The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by the Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda—a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland—the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969. The novel is the best selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies worldwide. In 1983, the novel was adapted into a television series also called The Thorn Birds that, during its run 27–30 March, became the United States' second highest-rated miniseries of all time behind ""Roots"". Meghann ""Meggie"" Cleary, a"
"The Shoe Bird The Shoe Bird is a 1964 children's novel by Southern writer Eudora Welty. The novel tells the story of a Parrot in a shoe store, as he talks to other birds about shoes. Welty, who had never written any children's literature before, wrote it to satisfy a contractual obligation with her publisher Harcourt Brace and to pay for a new roof on her house. An orchestral ballet was composed by Lehman Engel and performed by the Jackson Ballet Guild in 1968. A 2002 choral piece was also commissioned by the Mississippi Boy Choir and composed by composer"
"his autobiography ""I Follow but Myself"" Baker stated that it bore some resemblance to ""The Terror"" by Arthur Machen (first published 1917). When Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, ostensibly based on a short story ""The Birds"" (1952) by Daphne du Maurier, Baker considered pursuing litigation against Universal Studios. but eventually decided against doing so because legal counsel considered that the works were substantially different. The opinion states: ""The treatment of the general idea of attacks by birds in the two works is as different as it could be."" Du Maurier denied that she had taken the idea"
"several paintings of children destined for the church. The Thorn Birds The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by the Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda—a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland—the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969. The novel is the best selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies worldwide. In 1983, the novel was adapted into a television series also called The Thorn Birds that, during its run 27–30 March, became the United States' second highest-rated miniseries of"
"Dead Birds (1963 film) Dead Birds is a 1963 documentary film by Robert Gardner about the Dani people of New Guinea. It was produced as part of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to study the highlands of New Guinea, at that time one of the few remaining areas in the world uncolonized by Europeans. The premiere of Dead Birds took place at the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University in October 1963. In 1998, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The film's title"
"The Birds on the Trees The Birds on the Trees is a novel by Nina Bawden first published in 1970 about a middle-class English family whose 19-year-old son does not live up to his parents' expectations. ""The Birds on the Trees"" was announced, on 26 March 2010, as one of six books that had been shortlisted for the ""Lost Man Booker Prize"" of 1970, ""a contest delayed by 40 years because a reshuffling of the fledgeling competition’s rules that year disqualified nearly a year’s worth of high-quality fiction from consideration"". Toby Flower is a shy, reticent youth who has grown"
"Maurier's title and concept of unexplained bird attacks. In 2016, ""The Birds"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), a young socialite, meets criminal defense attorney Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop. Mitch wants to purchase a pair of lovebirds for his sister's eleventh birthday, but the shop has none. He recognizes Melanie from a court appearance, but she does not know him; he plays a prank by pretending to mistake her for a saleswoman. Melanie"
"birds; in 2009 the number was estimated to be closer to 40 per cage. On August 18, 1961, the ""Santa Cruz Sentinel"" reported that thousands of crazed sooty shearwaters were sighted on the shores of North Monterey Bay in California, regurgitating anchovies, flying into objects, and dying on the streets. The incident sparked the interest of local resident Alfred Hitchcock, along with a story about spooky bird behavior by British writer Daphne du Maurier, helping to inspire Hitchcock's 1963 thriller ""The Birds"", a cautionary tale of nature revolting against man. The film is now ranked among the American Film Institute's"
"Lord of the Flies (1963 film) Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British drama film, based on William Golding's novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery. It was written and directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen. The film was in production for much of 1961, though the film did not premiere until 1963, and get released in the United Kingdom until 1964. Golding himself supported the film. When Kenneth Tynan was a script editor for Ealing Studios he commissioned"
"The Painted Bird The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński which describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a ""Gypsy or Jewish stray,"" wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Eastern Europe. The story was originally introduced by Kosiński as autobiographical. It was only upon its publication by Houghton Mifflin that he quietly refrained from making such claims any further. Assumed by reviewers to be a memoir of a Jewish survivor and witness to the Holocaust telling the supposed true story of his search for the deported family, the book received"
"The Painted Bird The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński which describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a ""Gypsy or Jewish stray,"" wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Eastern Europe. The story was originally introduced by Kosiński as autobiographical. It was only upon its publication by Houghton Mifflin that he quietly refrained from making such claims any further. Assumed by reviewers to be a memoir of a Jewish survivor and witness to the Holocaust telling the supposed true story of his search for the deported family, the book received"
"Nick of the Woods Nick of the Woods; or, The Jibbenainesay is an 1837 novel by American author Robert Montgomery Bird. Noted today for its savage depiction of Native Americans, it was Bird's most successful novel and a best-seller at the time of its release. The novel was eventually published in twenty-three editions in English, and four translations, including a best-selling German translation by Gustav Höcker. The long popularity of the novel is evidenced by the fact that Mark Twain referenced the main character of the book in 1883's ""Life on the Mississippi"", presuming the audience would know the reference."
"""Birdy"" (1984), starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. It recounts the story of two school friends who have returned from the Vietnam war but were both psychologically and physically injured. Parker called it a ""wonderful story"" after having read the book by William Wharton. However, because of the nature of the story, he had no idea how to make it into a movie: ""I didn't know if you could take the poetry of the book and make it cinematic poetry, or if an audience would actually want it."" The film became a critical success. Richard Schickel says that Parker had"
"Birds Without Wings Birds Without Wings is a novel by Louis de Bernières, written in 2004. Narrated by various characters, it tells the tragic love story of Philothei and Ibrahim. It also chronicles the rise of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the 'Father of the Turkish Nation'. The overarching theme of the story covers the impact of religious intolerance, over-zealous nationalism, and the war that often results. The characters are unwittingly caught up in historical tides outside of their control. The book's title is taken from a saying by one of the characters, Iskander the Potter, ""Man is a bird without wings,"
"The Crocodile Bird The Crocodile Bird is a 1993 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell. When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is terrified. Although sixteen years of age, she has never been on a bus or a train, has never played with a child of her own age. She has almost no knowledge of a world described by her mother as evil and destructive. Their strange, enclosed life together is over because Eve has killed a man. And he is not the first. With £100 in"
"1963 film ""The Birds"". The non sequitur scene where the priests are attacked by birds was originally an attempt to recreate the film's backwards tracking shot, with people running and waving their hands, which Mathews found unintentionally hilarious. Linehan notes that the joke did not translate well in the final episode, because the special effect for the birds was actually quite good. The dancing priest was inspired by Neil Horan, a real Catholic priest who ""danced for peace"". A young Aidan Gillen auditioned for the role. As part of the audition, he had to dance alongside Linehan (who performed Ted's"
"expect: McBain novels had a consistent writing style, while Hunter novels were more varied. Under the Hunter name, novels steadily appeared throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, including ""Come Winter"" (1973) and ""Lizzie"" (1984). Hunter was also successful as screenwriter for film and television. He wrote the screenplay for the Hitchcock film ""The Birds"" (1963), loosely adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1952 novelette. In the process of adapting Winston Graham's novel ""Marnie"" (1961) for Hitchcock, Hunter and the director disagreed on the rape scene, and the writer was sacked. Hunter's other screenplays included ""Strangers When We Meet"" (1960),"
"Hitchcock had intended to film ""Marnie"" first, and in March 1962 it was announced that Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco since 1956, would come out of retirement to star in it. When Kelly asked Hitchcock to postpone ""Marnie"" until 1963 or 1964, he recruited Evan Hunter, author of ""The Blackboard Jungle"" (1954), to develop a screenplay based on a Daphne du Maurier short story, ""The Birds"" (1952), which Hitchcock had republished in his ""My Favorites in Suspense"" (1959). He hired Tippi Hedren to play the lead role. It was her first role; she had been a model in New"
"The Summer Birds The Summer Birds is a children's novel by British writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1962 by Chatto & Windus, and receiving a Carnegie Medal commendation. It is the first of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma, These three books are sometimes known as the ""Aviary Hall"" books. At the age of twenty-one, Penelope Farmer was contracted for her first collection of short stories, ""The China People"". Whilst working as a teacher for the London County Council Education Department, she was approached by editor Margaret K. McElderry of Harcourt Brace to write a children's novel."
"Flight of the Doves Flight of the Doves is a 1971 British film based on the novel by Irish writer Walter Macken, the film was written by Frank Gabrielson and Ralph Nelson. Nelson also directed the film. Two Liverpool children (Londoners in the original book) set out in search of love after many years of receiving abuse from their Uncle Tobias Cromwell (Uncle Toby - His surname in the book is Morgan). Cromwell is not a blood relation to the Dove children; their mother had married Cromwell after their birth, and he was granted custody after her death. Finn Dove"
"Feed the Birds ""Feed the Birds"" is a song written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman) and featured in the 1964 motion picture ""Mary Poppins"". The song speaks of an old beggar woman (the ""Bird Woman"") who sits on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, selling bags of breadcrumbs to passers-by for twopence a bag so that they can feed the many pigeons which surround the old woman. The scene is reminiscent of the real-life seed vendors of Trafalgar Square, who began selling birdseed to passers-by shortly after its public opening in 1844. In the"
"The Bird's Nest (novel) The Bird's Nest is a 1954 novel by Shirley Jackson. The plot concerns a young woman, Elizabeth Richmond, with multiple personality disorder. While writing ""The Bird's Nest"", Jackson suffered from insomnia, backaches, and paranoia, symptoms similar to those the main character of the novel is afflicted with. She took a break from writing the novel in the summer of 1953, but the symptoms returned when she continued writing the book that fall. Each chapter of the novel follows a specific character. Chapter One follows Elizabeth, a shy, rather colorless young woman who lives with her Aunt"
"festival"" and a ""sensation"", praising its visual qualities and expressiveness. In 2012, the film was digitally restored by the Croatian and Slovene Film Archives. Black Birds (film) Black Birds (""Crne ptice"") is a 1967 Yugoslavian war drama film directed by Eduard Galić. The original idea and script were by Grgo Gamulin. Zoran Tadić was the scenario assistant. The original music was composed by Anđelko Klobučar. The cinematography was by Mile de Gleria. The film editing was by Boris Tešija. The production design was by Branko Hundić. The film is a story about a group of prisoners in the Ustasha-run Stara"
"on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list, and have been translated into over 30 languages, with total sales estimated at 70 million in 1991. ""The Painted Bird"", Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others. Soon after the book was published in the US, Kosiński was accused by the then-Communist Polish"
"the story was adapted as the silent movie ""A Bit o' Heaven"" starring Mary Louise as Carol, Donald Watson and Ella Gilbert as Mr. and Mrs. Bird and Mary Talbot as Mrs. Ruggles. The Birds' Christmas Carol The Birds' Christmas Carol is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin printed privately in 1886 and published in 1888 with illustrations by Katharine R. Wireman. Wiggin published the book to help fund the Silver Street Free Kindergarten, which she founded in 1878. The story is about Carol Bird, a Christmas-born child, a young girl who is unusually loving and generous, having a positive"
"of 1984. Following its release, the film premiered at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, and on May 20, 1985, it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury prize. In 1987, the film received an Audience Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival. Birdy (film) Birdy is a 1984 American drama film based on William Wharton's 1978 novel of the same name. Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. The film focuses on the friendship between Birdy (Modine) and Al Columbato (Cage), two teenage boys living in a working-class neighborhood in 1960s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The story is"
"of combat with harrowing poetry. At once a freshly imagined bildungsroman and a metaphysical parable about the loss of innocence and the uses of memory."" The National Book Award citation describes ""The Yellow Birds"" as: ""Poetic, precise, and moving, ""The Yellow Birds"" is a work of fiercest principle, honoring loss while at the same time indicting the pieties of war...An urgent, vital, beautiful novel that reminds us through its scrupulous honesty how rarely its anguished truths are told."" The book was adapted on screen in 2017, ""The Yellow Birds"" was directed by ""Alexandre Moors"" and starred Jack Huston, Alden Ehrenreich,"