Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren, in an iconic screen debut) is a Californian socialite who follows a potential suitor to the small coastal town of Bodega Bay. Despite her romance beginning to blossom, the seemingly-innocuous town becomes a place of great terror once a series of violent and unexplained bird attacks start to wreak havoc on the bay’s residents. Alfred's Hitchcock's classic adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's story remains as nail-bitingly tense as it did on its first release in 1963.