And of course, The Birds has my favorite Hitchcock cameo. And why, pray tell, is it my favorite? Well…
PUPPIES!
Would I have put Jodie Foster in for Tippi Hedren? No, but still: yay Jodie Foster! Anyway, she’s recreating the famous “seagulls attacking phone booth” scene.
…I’m not the only one getting a gay vibe, right?
Admittedly, I haven’t seen every Hitchcock film, but of those I have seen, The Birds is my favorite. I am in a very, very small minority here, but the fact of the matter is that this movie scared the fucking shit out of me. Literally, by the end of the movie, I was actually covering my eyes and wishing I couldn’t hear the fluttering of the birds as Melanie Daniels made her way up the stairs and into the second-floor room. And the scene where Melanie is sitting outside the schoolhouse while the crows gather on the jungle gym behind her? Just…I get chills just thinking about it. It might be because in my culture, crows represent death (my father, who’s a pretty tough guy, also can’t watch the movie without the lights on), or something else, but either way, no other Hitchcock movie has managed to make me feel that level of uncontrolled terror.
Anyway: The Birds was released in 1963 and stars Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette.
Hitch’s cameo in Rear Window
Ok, I had to include Thelma Ritter, because I absolutely adore her character, Stella.
Considered by many to be Hitchcock’s best film is Rear Window, released in 1954 and starring Grace Kelly and James Stewart
Hitch’s very brief, very inconspicuous cameo in Psycho
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