High Anxiety
Danger, intrigue, romance...and a touch of kinkiness!
1977 · 1h 34m · PG
Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Mel Brooks
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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.
Director and cast
- Mel Brooks Director
- 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
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