Considering Brits used to refer to women as birds, does anybody think this might be Hitch's answer to feminism? (The attacks start with the arrival of a 'modern' woman).
shareInteresting point.
I'm reading a bio of Hitchcock at the moment and apparently he did have some issues with aggressive women. But if they confronted him for any reason, he wouldn't hit back, he'd just walk away.
Maybe he was attracted to Du Maurier's story because it gave him a valid way to comment on the danger of overly-aggressive women in his life.