Movies - High Anxiety

Synopsis

List of referenced films

Hitchcock films

• Spellbound
  — Hitchcock's film about an insane asylum, the basic source of the plot
• Vertigo
  — same San Francisco Bay setting at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, same bell tower location, similar movie poster graphics, and gives the main character his condition
• Psycho
  — shot-by-shot parody of the famous shower scene
• The Birds
  — also partially set in San Francisco, the bird-attack scene is parodied
• North by Northwest
  — main character's name is a take-off of Roger O. Thornhill, but unlike Thorndyke, Thornhill never reveals his middle name
• The Thirty-Nine Steps
• Suspicion
• Notorious
• Under Capricorn
• Dial M for Murder
• The Wrong Man
• Frenzy

Other films

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  — Nurse Diesel's name and bosom is in reference to Nurse Ratched
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Spy Who Loved Me

Trivia

• Two of the film's writers appear in comical supporting roles: Rudy DeLuca as the killer "Braces," and Rain Man
  -director Barry Levinson as the tightly-wound bellhop, "Dennis."

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