Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
- hitman
- vertigo
- lighthouse
- satire
- industrialist
- spoof
- satirical
- bird droppings
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mel Brooks
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
Madeline Kahn
Victoria Brisbane
Cloris Leachman
Nurse Charlotte Diesel
Harvey Korman
Dr. Charles Montague
- Ron Carey — Brophy
- Howard Morris — Professor Lilloman
- Dick Van Patten — Dr. Philip Wentworth
- Jack Riley — The Desk Clerk
- Charlie Callas — Cocker Spaniel
- Ron Clark — Zachary Cartwright III
- Rudy De Luca — 'Braces' - Killer
- Barry Levinson — Dennis - Bellboy
- Lee Delano — Norton
- Albert Whitlock — Arthur Brisbane
- Billy Sands — Customer
- Directed
- Mel Brooks
- Written
- Barry Levinson, Ron Clark, Mel Brooks, Rudy De Luca
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 416 ratings
- Studio
- Crossbow Productions, 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
