10 Movies That Almost Had Much Better Endings

5. San Fransisco Bridge - The Birds

The Official Ending: It was already impossible to see a cropduster or take a shower without getting a little on edge thanks to Alfred Hitchcock, but with The Birds he turned one of the most unavoidable, everyday things into a source of nightmares. In the final moments of the 1963 classic, Tippi Hedren goes up to the attic (classic horror trope there) and gets attacked by a giant flock of birds, before she and the rest of her small group of survivors leave, driving through a landscape dominated by seemingly docile crows and seagulls.

The One We Almost Got: It's not a massive change, with the general ambiguity of why the attacks began and what the fate of our heroes is maintained, but originally the film was going to run a little longer, seeing their car drive over a Golden Gate Bridge utterly covered in birds. Obviously, being made back in the early sixties, this was technically impossible to achieve and thus never made it beyond the concept stage.

Why It Would Have Been Better: In terms of iconography the Golden Gate Bridge makes climbing frames and telephone wires look paltry and would have really emphasised how wide reaching the film's attacks were.

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