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High Anxiety (1977)

Director: Mel Brooks

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From Time Out Film Guide

Generally juvenile and crass spoof of Hitchcock thrillers, filching themes and scenes from Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Spellbound, etc, in its story of a psychologist going to work at a very strange and sinister Institute for the Very Very Nervous. Most of the gags are either incredibly obvious or depressingly scatological, or both. But there are a couple of nice touches, one satirising Hitchcock's use of orchestral scores, and the other his relentlessly prowling, voyeuristic camera.

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Cast & crew

Director: Mel Brooks

Producer: Mel Brooks

Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Dick Van Patten, Rudy DeLuca, Barry Levinson full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 94 mins


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