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HBO will premiere their latest two-hour made-for-television movie, The Girl, on Saturday, October 20. For anyone that's interested in the movies of Alfred Hitchcock, considered one of the modern masters of cinema and suspense, or the making of Hitchcock's 1963 nature gone wild film The Birds, this is shaping up to be a picture that you need to watch.

Toby Jones plays the portly Hitchcock in The Girl while British-born Sienna Miller plays Tippi Hedrin, a young actress trying to carve out her name in show business. The Girl centers on the adversarial and even stalker-like relationship that Hitchcock reportedly had with Hedrin during the filming of The Birds, and how her job with the filmmaker nearly caused her to quit acting.

The HBO trailer certainly builds up a feeling that The Girl could venture into psycho-thriller territory, cracking open a painted over window and exposing a darker side of Hitchcock's career that few people knew was there.

Julian Jarrold directed The Girl for HBO, and based on that trailer he's certainly got a knack for giving the picture a very early '60s feel and look. I love the recreations of several famous moments in Hitchcock's original movie, such as Hedrin's attack by the crazed birds in a dark room and the seagull that crashes through the glass of a phone booth. It's one that I'll be tuning in to watch.