High Anxiety

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.

Cast

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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