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Originally Posted by Catlady
How can anyone hate The Birds? It's not my favorite Hitchcock film, but it's pretty terrific.
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Hitchcock was past his prime by the time
The Birds came to roost, but also time was past him. Black & white was his métier, not color. Also, as I alluded to above, his blondes were not the actresses they were. Tippi Hedren, Kim Novak and Doris Day were no Madeleine Carroll, Joan Fontaine, or Ingrid Bergman. Rod Taylor was no Cary Grant or Joseph Cotten, either.