Ungrammatical advertising campaigns emphasized: "The Birds Is Coming." This Technicolor feature came afterPsycho (1960)- another film loaded with ""bird"" references.Novelist Evan Hunter based his screenplay upon the 1952 collection of short stories of the same name by Daphne du Maurier - Hitchcock""s third major film based on the author""s works (afterJamaica Inn (1939)andRebecca (1940))." In the film""s most notorious, vulgar and well-remembered scene, gassed-up, wind-breaking cowboys from Taggart""s crew sit around the night""s campfire eating beans - burping and farting incessantly - bathroom humor at its finest.Ominously, "Evil Eye also watches" from nearby.BackgroundCabaret(1972) is director/choreographer Bob Fosse""s defining, decadent, award-winning musical which popularized the phrase: "Life is a Cabaret.And both Steve McQueen and Harvey Keitel were considered for the Willard role ultimately played by Martin Sheen.