QIs there an alternate ending?
AIt is said that Hitchcock wanted to end the movie with the car arriving in San Francisco, only to find the Golden Gate Bridge covered with birds, giving the foreboding impression that the attacks were not over. However, due to the logistics of filming such a scene, it was never shot. In another ending that was written but never shot, the car slowly drives through Bodega Bay, and the group sees people who have fallen victim to the birds. The birds do not attack, however, until Mitch sees a clear stretch of road ahead and accelerates. The birds then begin to attack the car, but they manage to make it out of the Bay.
QWhy did Lydia hate Annie, Melanie, and any of Mitch's girlfriends?
ALydia (Jessica Tandy) didn't hate them, but her husband died four years earlier, and she felt fearful that, should Mitch marry, she would be left alone.
QDoes Alfred Hitchcock have a cameo in "The Birds"?
AYes. When Melanie enters the Davidson's Pet Shop about two minutes into the film, Hitchcock can be seen leaving it. The two white dogs on leashes are his own Sealyham terriers, Geoffrey and Stanley. A photo of the scene can be seen here.
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