Nothing Gold Can Stay

In this day and age of effects and skillful CGI, perhaps Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) doesn’t elicit genuine terror and chills anymore.

But isn’t there just something dramatic and rich about that era of film in which leading ladies say ‘darling’ and a good three piece suit can cause girls to swoon and cleavage is non existent. And isn’t Tippi Hedren magnificently glamorous, even as a flock of angry seagull puppets ravages her flawless skin?

There’s a magic to the classics, after all.