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.

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