The Birds and Other Stories the fantasy genre, some bordering on science fiction, the stories were "largely overlong and not too original." The Birds and Other Stories The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier, originally published in 1952 as The Apple Tree by Gollancz in the United Kingdom. It includes "The Birds," which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. The anthology was published in the United States as Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Doubleday and then has been republished under the current name, "The Birds and Other Stories". Reviewing
The Pearl Fishers (1963 film) cluttered up at times. He also used such film techniques as flashbacks, and in the love duel the closeup was excessive. The flames in which Ronal Jackson expired at the end of the. .opera were a further innovation; such an impressively elaborate production obviously cried out for colour television." The Pearl Fishers (1963 film) The Pearl Fishers is a 1963 Australian TV play based on the opera by Bizet. It was filmed in Sydney at the ABC's Gore Hill studios and marked the one hundredth anniversary of the first performance of the opera. Keene and Jackson appear in the production,