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Tuesday, May 22, 2018











     High Anxiety
1977  PG  COMEDY  1h 34min
CAST— Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Dick Van Patten, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Murphy Dunn, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas
MUSIC— John Morris  DIRECTOR— Mel Brooks

     Join Mel Brooks on another slap-happy descent into madness, this time set at a psychiatric institute: the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. Brooks is a world-renowned psychiatrist who, despite treating others for mental illness, suffers his own phobia: high anxiety, a debilitating fear of heights. As he tries to come to grips with this phobia the head nurse and her crony are putting in action a devious plan to take over the institute… by any means necessary. Not as uproarious as other films by Brooks but this homage to Hitchcock does boast hilarious performances by a vile Cloris Leachman and a bondage-loving Harvey Korman (the werewolf scene is a scream). Be you nut or not we bid you enjoy.
OUR RATING— ** ½
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