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Taken from a story by Daphne Du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock's horrifying tale could cause a lifetime suspicion of all things fowl. San Francisco socialite and practical joker Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) meets Mitch Brenner in a pet store, where he is looking to buy a pair of lovebirds for his sister's birthday. They flirt: Mitch pretends to mistake Melanie for the shop girl; Melanie pretends to sell him the birds. After he leaves, Melanie decides to continue the joke (and the flirting) by delivering the birds to his house. She ends up in the unassuming coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, a gull attacks Melanie, which is only the first of many odd and terrifying bird attacks.