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High Anxiety

1977·94 min

High Anxiety

Directed by Mel Brooks

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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.

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Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke

Victoria Brisbane

Cloris Leachman

Nurse Charlotte Diesel

Dr. Charles Montague

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High Anxiety (1977) is about 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.

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Mel Brooks directed High Anxiety (1977).

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