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1 September 1978 (Sweden)
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The Master of Comedy takes on The Master of Suspense! more
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Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on...
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
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Walk This Way: Nine-Disc Mel Brooks Blu-ray Set!
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Walk This Way: Nine-Disc Mel Brooks Blu-ray Set!
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Dizzy parody is Brooks at his height.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mel Brooks | ... | Richard H. Thorndyke |
 | Madeline Kahn | ... | Victoria Brisbane |
 | Cloris Leachman | ... | Nurse Diesel |
 | Harvey Korman | ... | Dr. Charles Montague |
 | Ron Carey | ... | Brophy |
| Howard Morris | ... | Professor Lilloman |
 | Dick Van Patten | ... | Dr. Wentworth |
| Jack Riley | ... | The Desk Clerk |
| Charlie Callas | ... | Cocker Spaniel |
| Ron Clark | ... | Zachary Cartwright |
| Rudy De Luca | ... | Killer (as Rudy DeLuca) |
 | Barry Levinson | ... | Bellboy |
| Lee Delano | ... | Norton |
| Richard Stahl | ... | Dr. Baxter |
| Darrell Zwerling | ... | Dr. Eckhardt |
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94 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Netherlands:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Italy:VM14 (original rating) |
Canada:PG (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Brazil:12 |
Australia:M (TV rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:15 (re-rating) |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG (Approved No. 25032) |
Singapore:PG
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Cloris Leachman's enormous prosthetic breasts are a reference to Nurse Ratched's ample chest in the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" which is set in an insane asylum.
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Continuity: When the huge threatening note comes though the bathroom windows attached to a boulder, the lid of the toilet tank is knocked into a diagonal position. In close-up shots the tank lid is askew, but in long shots the tank lid is undisturbed.
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Victoria:
Have you seen my father at the Institute? Is he all right?
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: He's fine, he's fine. He's coming along just fine. He's very affectionate. He licked me.
Victoria: He what?
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: Well, he thinks he's a dog these days.
Victoria: A dog?
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: A dog, yes.
Victoria: Do you mind if I smoke?
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Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: He's fine, he's fine. He's coming along just fine. He's very affectionate. He licked me.
Victoria: He what?
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: Well, he thinks he's a dog these days.
Victoria: A dog?
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: A dog, yes.
Victoria: Do you mind if I smoke?
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Referenced in "Full House: High Anxiety (#7.7)" (1993)
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If you love me baby, tell me loud
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Though often overlooked in favor of Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein, I believe this to be the pick of Brooks' parodies. Whether you share this opinion would depend on your familiarity with all things Hitchcockian.
It is not only Vertigo, as the title suggests, that gets the Brooks treatment here, but The Birds, Spellbound and Psycho are all parodied to various degrees of subtlety. Many of these films key scenes are simply re-enacted with comic touches, whilst the Hitchcock formalae is very much in evidence. The style is particularly amusing in its parody. Highlights include a probing camera becoming all too literally intrusive when it crashes through a pane of glass in the window, and a dramatic sound composition turning out to be merely the didactic passing bus load of a touring philamonic orchestra.
Resisting the out and out farce of his earlier effort, Blazing Saddles, and managing not to evolve into simply being a one joke movie such as the tendency of his recent efforts, High Anxiety is Brooks at his most clever. The cast, mainly consisting of Brooks regulars, all display splendidly entertaining and aptly silly impersonations of recognisible Hitchcock stereotypes. It is Brooks' finest hour however, with not only directing, writing, and acting to his credit but singing as well!!!