The Birds (story) The Birds (story) "The Birds" is a horror story by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection "The Apple Tree". It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of birds and seabirds in "kamikaze" fashion. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. By the end of the story it becomes clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds", released in 1963, the same year
Bitter Harvest (1963 film) Bitter Harvest (1963 film) Bitter Harvest is a 1963 British dramatic film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Janet Munro and John Stride, about a young girl who rejects marriage to become a kept woman. The film is based on the book "20,000 Streets Under the Sky" by Patrick Hamilton. A beautiful but intoxicated woman, Jennie Jones (Janet Munro), returns to her London apartment late one night and begins to destroy its contents in a rage, throwing her purse, keys and many of her expensive gowns out into the street. Her story is then told in flashback. As a