Strictly for the Birds is a 1964 British second feature[1] comedy film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Tony Tanner, Joan Sims and Graham Stark.

Terry Blessing seems to be having a lucky day, winning at gambling, until a woman with whom he had an assignation six years previously phones him and claims her child is his son.

Sewell said: The studio was gonna close, but they had a free six weeks, and they had this young man who they thought would be a star.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Rather devoid of anything in the way of an original idea (the title song, with its visual complement of pigeons, is, for instance, irrelevant except as an hommage to Sparrows Can't Sing), this juvenile lark has, at least, the saving grace of brevity.

The good-for-nothing Terry and his domineering sister are unsympathetically over-played by Tony Tanner and Joan Sims; but as a farce, made on a low budget and with a basis of reality (however unfair to the working classes), the film has some quite intriguing settings (notably the bookshop and the tenement flat), and Graham Stark gives amusing support as a talented old busker.