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Her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, starred in her own low-budget influential slasher horror film, 1978's Halloween.
Coming up, more about Hitchcock with Evan Hunter, the screenwriter of Hitchcock's The Birds.
We're looking back today at a couple of Alfred Hitchcock films.
We just heard about the making of his 1960 movie, Psycho, which was released 65 years ago.
Next, we focus on the film he made in 1963.
The film The Birds, based on a novella by Daphne du Maurier, is set in a small coastal community where the birds inexplicably begin attacking humans and pecking them to death.
The story was adapted for the screen by Evan Hunter, who had written the novel Blackboard Jungle, which itself was made into a movie.
Under the pen name Ed McBain, Hunter also had written a series of best-selling mystery novels set in New York's 87th Precinct.
When Terry spoke with Evan Hunter in 1999, she asked him about adapting the novella, and he admitted he found it difficult.
Evan Hunter, speaking to Terry Gross in 1999.
Let's get back to Terry's 1999 interview with Evan Hunter, who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film, The Birds.
Evan Hunter speaking with Terry Gross in 1999.
He died in 2005 at age 78.
Coming up, Justin Chang reviews the new film Hamnet about Shakespeare as a husband and father.