Mel Brooks has made a career out of ... Unlike all the other satires and ribbings in Brooks’ oeuvre, the 1977 film High Anxiety was not a parody of a whole genre or certain commercial trends ...

When Mel Brooks was making the film High Anxiety, he had one anxiety left even after completing the film to his satisfaction. His concern was that the suspense-film spoof would please the Master ...

In fact, as I watched “Mel Brooks ... This is an audacious maneuver. Brooks’ friend and co-screenwriter for films like “Silent Movie” and “High Anxiety,” Barry Levinson, like many ...

(JTA) — Jeremy Dauber subtitles his new biography of Mel Brooks “Disobedient Jew ... Frankenstein,” Alfred Hitchcock in “High Anxiety — he would gently, sometimes crudely and always ...