High Anxiety

[Michael Bailey]

I think it's also a send-up of/tribute to Vertigo.  In fact I read
somewhere it's one of a group
of pictures Mel Brooks made in tribute and/or parody of Hitchcock films.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:58 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> this maybe all coincidence but Mel Brook's movie High Anxiety
>
> a very funny movie about a shrink in SF who gets involved with a woman
> who's father she fears is being held captive in a loony bin against
> his will.
>
> Mel Brook's character is named Thorndyke, the same name of the one of
> the dudes Clancy meets up with after she introduces Boris to Doc. This
> is the same chapter with the investigation of the photo of the
> shooting at the Channel View Estates parlor.
>
> Thorndyke in the movie High Anxiety (he's afraid of heights) is framed
> for the shooting murder in a crowded hotel lobby but they discover a
> photo of the scene which is blown up and shown to Thorndyke--he is
> watching himself in the photo freaking out, in distress,  in a
> descending glass walled elevator (he's not the killer, he's been set
> up--I've been to that hotel near the Embarcadero--its freaking
> high-the inside is all open)
> In the chapter I'm talking about Doc is thinking about viewing himself
> inside, knocked unconscious, in distress, in the blown up photo while
> the shooting goes down
>
> funny the little coincidences one conjures.
>
> p.s. harvey korman is side-splitting funny in High Anxiety
>
> rich
>



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