The Birds (1963)

Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

• based on short story
• bird attack
• blood on head
• chased down street
• cigarette lighter
• cigarette smoking
• face slap
• fireplace
• head wound
• lovebird
• pet shop
• playground
• practical joke
• rotoscoping
• schoolhouse
• schoolteacher
• seagull
• seclusion
• shopkeeper
• socialite
• suspense
• unsolved mystery