Mud Songs

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds is a B-movie that’s no more sophisticated or frightening than The Blob. It has a few good shots, but it’s boring and over-rated. If you bother to watch it (I don’t plan to see it again), let me know if you think the guy who plays Mitch, Rod Taylor, looks and sounds like Robin Williams’s father. I was convinced the two must be related. They’re not.

The Lady Vanishes is an early Hitchcock mystery that’s more interesting than suspenseful. If I was alive during the 1930s, I probably would have loved it.