Movie
High Anxiety
Overview
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
Details
- Release date
- 1977-12-25
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Crossbow Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Mel Brooks as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
- Madeline Kahn as Victoria Brisbane
- Cloris Leachman as Nurse Charlotte Diesel
- Harvey Korman as Dr. Charles Montague
- Ron Carey as Brophy
- Howard Morris as Professor Lilloman
- Dick Van Patten as Dr. Philip Wentworth
- Jack Riley as The Desk Clerk
- Charlie Callas as Cocker Spaniel
- Ron Clark as Zachary Cartwright III
- Rudy De Luca as 'Braces' - Killer
- Barry Levinson as Dennis - Bellboy
Crew
- Mel Brooks - Director
- Mel Brooks - Writer
- Ron Clark - Writer
- Rudy De Luca - Writer
- Barry Levinson - Writer
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