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...scene in which a band of schoolchildren is attacked, trained birds are used to fly menacingly close to the running children; mechanical birds, who peck at innocent napes, have been stitched to coat collars. Then four different strips of film are superimposed and cut into each other, drawing migratory flights photographed far away into the attack. Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock's new "classic beauty" discovery, is attacked by coveys of birds and desperately bats them off with a flashlight; to shoot the minute-long sequence, six days were required-with a dozen trained birds attacking, plenty of stuffed birds...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner in Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Color...
...tries to scare him off. But the rapist beats up three hired bullies, makes one of them admit who hired him, counterattacks with disbarment proceedings. Desperate, Peck flees with his family up a sinister creek that leads into the cypress jungles of North Carolina. Safe at last! But are they? In the moonlight silently the sedges part and down to the dark water slithers a dark form that grins like an alligator - but who ever saw an alligator in an aloha shirt? According to the trailers, Fear is in tended to make the moviegoers "FEEL FEAR!" and once...
Cape Fear (Universal-International). "You can't put a man in jail for what he might do." The hero (Gregory Peck) nods grimly. As a lawyer, he knows that the chief of police is right. But that doesn't solve his problem: a rapist (Robert Mitchum) he once caught in the act has been released from jail and has returned to North Carolina to take revenge on the lawyer and his family. How to stop...