High Anxiety (1977 Jason’s Pick)
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Show Notes
The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977 features Jason’s personal pick, Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety. Written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman and Ron Carey, High Anxiety is a parody of the work of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/high-anxiety-1978), Vincent Canby in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/mel-brooks-in-high-anxiety.html), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker.
Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1977 installment featuring the Golden Globes Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) winner, Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl.