Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Clift at a dinner party around the filming of "I Confess" (1953) to swallow a carafe of brandy, which caused the actor to pass out almost immediately. In "Torn Curtain" and "Topaz", brandy is defined more closely as cognac. Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is offered a brandy by Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette), and after being attacked by the birds, drinks the brandy offered by Mitch (Rod Taylor). In "Rear Window", Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) is "just warming some brandy". In "Frenzy", Richard Blaney is sacked for supposedly stealing brandy, and can be seen in several sequences to be drinking brandy.
Rod Taylor man whose town and home come under attack by menacing birds. Taylor then starred with Jane Fonda in the romantic comedy "Sunday in New York" (also 1963). During the mid-1960s, Taylor worked mostly for MGM. His credits including "The V.I.P.s" (1963), his first feature film role as an Australian, with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Maggie Smith; "Fate Is the Hunter" (for 20th Century Fox, 1964) with Glenn Ford and Suzanne Pleshette; "36 Hours" (1964) with James Garner; "Young Cassidy" (1965) with Julie Christie and Maggie Smith; "The Liquidator" (1965) with Jill St. John; "Do Not Disturb" (1965); and "The