Tippi Hedren plays a woman named Melanie Daniels, who likes to play practical jokes and has recently been brought to [[court]] for one of her pranks. There she meets Rod Taylor's character, Mitch Brenner, who fools her into buying him a pair of lovebirds. She brings the birds in a cage by boat to Brenner's house in Bodega Bay. There, Melanie meets Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) and his little sister (Veronica Cartwright). | Tippi Hedren plays a woman named Melanie Daniels, who likes to play practical jokes and has recently been brought to [[court]] for one of her pranks. There she meets Rod Taylor's character, Mitch Brenner, who fools her into buying him a pair of lovebirds. She brings the birds in a cage by boat to Brenner's house in Bodega Bay. There, Melanie meets Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) and his little sister (Veronica Cartwright). |