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Rating: Rated PG
Release Date: Jul 1997
Format: VHS
UPC: 086162110733
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Description: 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...
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Movie Description
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.

Credits
Writer:Mel Brooks, Ron Clark
Producer:Mel Brooks
Cast:Harvey Korman

Details
Sound:HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound

Notes
Cowriter Ron Clark collaborated with Brooks on SILENT MOVIE in 1976.

Howard Morris, who played professor Lilloman, was for years one of Sid Caesar's sidekicks on his television shows and was the cartoon voice for some Hanna-Barbera characters.

Famed special effects artist Albert J. Whitlock, who worked on several Hitchcock films and did the effects for HIGH ANXIETY, has a cameo as Arthur Brisbane.

Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics for the theme song "High Anxiety," which he also sings in the film.

The hotel bellboy is played by Barry Levinson, who also cowrote the screenplay. Levinson went on to write and direct such hits as DINER and RAIN MAN.

Editorial Reviews
"...Infectiously funny....[Brooks] has succeeded in making the movie look like a Hitchcock prodution..."
New York Times - Vincent Canby (12/26/1977)

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      1978 Mel Brooks' Parody Homage to Hitchcock Thrillers
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    First, let me introduce you to some of this film's characters:
    Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke (Mel Brooks)
    Victoria Brisbane (Madeline Kahn)
    Nurse Charlotte Diesel (Cloris Leachman)
    Dr. Charles Montague (Harvey Korman)
    Brophy (Ron Carey, co-writer)
    Dennis, a psychotic bellhop (Barry Levinson, co-writer)
    Braces (Rudy DeLuca, co-writer)
    Professor Lilloman (Howard Morris)

    Mel Brooks (Dr. Roger Thorndyke) wrote, directed & starred in this hilarious parody of some of Hitchcock's major dramas. Thorndyke, for example, is easily recognized as caricature of Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant in Hitchcock's still famous (1959) spy thriller, "North by Northwest;" equally recognizable is Thorndyke's fear of heights from (1958) Vertigo character, Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson played by Jimmy Stewart. Victoria Bribane's (Madeline Kahn) gray suit is identical to ((1958) Vertigo character's, Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton (Kim Novak). Major Hitchcock scenes are parodied as "High Anxiety" proceeds: such as the shower scene in "Psycho" (1960), the jungle gym scene in "The Birds" (1963), the shooting in "North by Northwest" (1959) & the climax of "Vertigo" (1958). I could go on through a list of Hitchcock's stellar thrillers that Brooks parodies.

    To this film's plot: Dr. Thorndyke is an unlikely new chief of the "Institute for the Very Very Nervous." As a typically neurotic guy accused of untruths, deception & even murder, the chief-of-neurosis has much about which to be very nervous.

    Madeline Kahn (Victoria Brisbane) is well cast as Thorndyke's flaky, cool & mysterious blonde "love interest." Her father is in the asylum. Cloris Leachman as the sadistic dominatrix by night, Nurse Charlotte Diesel, is deviantly comical as a cross between "Young Frankenstein's" (1974) Frau Blucher & "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest's" (1975) Nurse Ratched. At the mercy of her nursey S&M is the black leather costumed masochist Dr. Charles Montague (Harvey Korman). Together, they team up to bring "High Anxiety" to a riotous romp in farce.

    Co-Writers Ron Clark (Brophy, a neck-pain & fear of werewolves patient), Rudy DeLuca (Braces, a tooth-braces murderer) & Barry Levinson (Dennis, a psychotic bellhop), combine their wits with Brooks' & the perfect cast to make "High Anxiety" a simultaneously satirical, farcical, ironic parody that is a light-hearted classic comedy~


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