High Anxiety (Blu-ray) PG
The Master of Comedy takes on The Master of Suspense!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 11, 2010
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: 20Th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mel Brooks & Madeline Kahn | |
Performer: | Charlie Callas, Howard Morris, Ron Carey, Beatrice Colen, Dick Van Patten, Harvey Korman, Jack Riley & Cloris Leachman | |
Directed by | Ron Clark, Barry Levinson & Mel Brooks | |
Edited by | John C. Howard | |
Written by | Mel Brooks, Ron Clark & Rudy De Luca | |
Composition by | John Morris | |
Cinematography by | Paul Lohmann | |
Produced by | Mel Brooks |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
One of Brooks lesser comedies from the 1970s, but it beats hands-down any of his later work.
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Three Movie Buffs
Rating: A --
[VIDEO ESSAY] Mel Brooks's flair for comic riffing against a stylized background of plot devices draws on a long tradition of spoof movies that date back to the first days of sound cinema.
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Brooks spoofs the master, Alfred Hithcock, and make a minor comedy classic of his own with High Anxiety
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What Would Toto Watch?
Rating: 3.5/5 --
its endless parade of campy Hitchcock gags makes us feel smart
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Filmcritic.com
Rating: 5/5 --
Brooks at his most brilliant!
7M Pictures
Most of this stuff isn't particularly funny however, and even though I watched High Anxiety for the first time in 2010, I'm not sure it would have been very funny back in 1977 either.
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Combustible Celluloid
...Infectiously funny....[Brooks] has succeeded in making the movie look like a Hitchcock prodution...
New York Times
Product Description:
In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He becomes the new chief of the Institute for the Very Very Nervous, where things are not what they seem, and it's not long before Richard finds himself embroiled in murder, deception, and other hilarious situations. While Brooks plays the quintessential innocent man accused, Madeline Kahn is perfect as his Hichcockian icy blonde love interest, Victoria Brisbane. It is perhaps Cloris Leachman, though, who is at her most deviantly funny as Nurse Diesel--a kind of cross between her Frau Blucher character from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and Nurse Rached from ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. HIGH ANXIETY is a treat to watch just to spot the Hitchcock parodies/homages, as Brooks amiably spoofs some of the suspense master's most famous scenes, including hysterical takeoffs of THE BIRDS and PSYCHO. HIGH ANXIETY is one of Mel Brooks's most consistently entertaining films.
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