In the five decades since she starred in The Birds, Tippi Hedren has spent more time helping to save the animals than acting, so it’s fitting that she appears in this oddball 1981 artifact about big cats in Africa (it was actually filmed in California). Just as Janet Leigh, another Alfred Hitchcock veteran, starred with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, in John Carpenter’s The Fog, Hedren’s daughter, Melanie Griffith, came along on the arduous, 11-year journey…