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High Anxiety (1977) | User Rating
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Budget $3,400,000
Running Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Crossbow Productions
Studio 20th Century Fox, Crossbow Productions
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Other Titles
• High Anxiety (1977)
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Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Spoof, Slapstick, Suspense, Satire, Murder, Thieves, Doctor
Tagline: A Psycho-Comedy
Plot: In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He becomes the new chief of the Institute for the Very Very Nervous, where things are not what they seem, and it's not long before Richard finds himself embroiled in murder, deception, and other hilarious situations. While Brooks plays the quintessential innocent man accused, Madeline Kahn is perfect as his Hichcockian icy blonde love interest, Victoria Brisbane. It is perhaps Cloris Leachman, though, who is at her most deviantly funny as Nurse Diesel--a kind of cross between her Frau Blucher character from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and Nurse Rached from ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. HIGH ANXIETY is a treat to watch just to spot the Hitchcock parodies/homages, as Brooks amiably spoofs some of the suspense master's most famous scenes, including hysterical takeoffs of THE BIRDS and PSYCHO. HIGH ANXIETY is one of Mel Brooks's most consistently entertaining films.
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| Directed by |
Mel Brooks
Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Spaceballs |
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| Written by |
Mel Brooks
The Producers, The Nude Bomb, Get Smart | Ron Clark
Silent Movie, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Life Stinks |
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| Cast |
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 | Cloris Leachman
Young Frankenstein, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Iron Giant |
 | Barry Levinson
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies, The Outsider, Bruce Willis |
 | Mel Brooks
Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood: Men in Tights | Harvey Korman
Blazing Saddles, The Flintstones, Jingle All the Way | Ron Carey
History of the World: Part I, Johnny Dangerously, Silent Movie | | |
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John Morris
Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, The Elephant Man |
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