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"High Anxiety" is a screaming Mel Brooks motion-picture show which spoofs respective perplexity and apprehensiveness films, in exceptional those of Alfred Hitchcock. The story is hilarious, as is the comedic impermanent. Mel Brooks acting Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, a sure-fire head-shrinker who's been appointed to drudgery at the Psychosomatic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous in Los Angeles. Cloris Leachman is too excessive as the psychotic Nurse Diesel, as is Harvey Korman as a potty medico at the institute and Howard Morris as Professor Littloldman, Richard's mentor, who cures him of his "high anxiety" - activist terror of topographic point.

The picture show begins near Dr. Thorndyke incoming at the Los Angeles Airport. Since he has a tremedous terror of heights, he finds he must confess himself in the air unhealthiness bag. He has two scary adventures up to that time departing the flying field and comments, "What a melodramatic airport!"

After arriving, he's escorted aboard a bus to the Psychosomatic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. There he meets Dr. Charles Montague (Korman) and Nurse Diesel (Leachman), who end up sidesplitting Dr. Wentworth, cranium of the institute, and devising it countenance like an fluke. He likewise meets his old colleague Prof. Littloldman (Korman), who discovers his disquiet of heights, diagnoses him near "high anxiety", and tries to medicine him of it.

Thorndyke travels to San Francisco and foundation at the Hyatt Regency, where he speaks at a psychiatrical convention. He has a brace misadventures there, with beingness attacked by the bellman beside a tabloid and individual pooped on in Golden Gate Park by a crowded faithful of pigeons. He as well meets Victoria Brisbane (Kahn), a tender female person who's hard to get her male parent released from the association after anyone de jure diagnosed.

At a captious moment, Dr. Thorndyke becomes healed of his soaring psychological state after nigh falling to decease from a baggy measure in a elevated tower after Prof. Littloldman explains to him that he's claustrophobic of parents, not high. The moving picture ends happily, next to Dr. Thorndyke marrying Victoria.