North by Northwest: Police Station

Funniest scene in one of the all-time greatest movies.
Cary Grand gets drunk and speaks geeberish in a police station.

[@marelicainavokado]

I love how he climbs on the table with his butt towards the screen. The whole police station scene as brilliant!

[@piehound]

Thumbs up. And notice the position of both his hands when the good doctor asks him *HOW MUCH would you say that you drank ?* That much.

[@mylargebreasts]

"No, they didn't give me a chaser!"

[@NormAppleton]

Who says? Emil Klinger Yeah I couldn't believe either

[@12classics39]

“That was Mother.” Nice of him to make that very-necessary clarification.

[@piehound]

Thumbs up. I didn't believe it either.

[@chrisfinch8637]

Well, he did say “Hello, Mother?”, earlier, too.

[@12classics39]

@@chrisfinch8637 that’s my point. He constantly addresses her as “mother” while he’s talking to her, so him saying “that was mother” to the policeman after hanging up was totally superfluous.

[@chrisfinch8637]

John Berandino as Emile Klinger, played Dr. Steve Hardy on ABC's General Hospital, for 33 years, until his passing in 1996.

[@southerngirlraven7]

I always notice something new, each time I watch it. Definitely my favorite movie of all time. 🍿

[@Mattsaurus]

''How much would you say you drank?'' ''Oh, about this much!''

[@cossacks1232]

"No, mother, I have NOT been drinking." ".....poured a whole bottle of BOURBON into me....." lol

[@travistaylor5000]

No, they didn't give me a chaser. 😆

[@MalteWilsen]

"Doctor, I am gassed."

[@susanmurphy217]

I love, love, love, Cary Grant!!

[@piehound]

His real name was Gary Granite.

[@curbArlecchino]

Great movie, this really is the 1st floor interior of the old Glen Cove police station. I used to go into it with a friend who's father was a detective. The lieutenant in this scene is Paul Gange, the shotgun wielding hit man in "Bullitt".

[@petepoulos]

mickmook and also one of the Cops In I Want To Live.

[@meyou-dv8ns]

I live in Glen Cove. Long Island New York- we always loved this movie

[@radamik]

Very nice town (and cool name too). But of course it doesn’t have the rocky cliffs along the shoreline that this movie portrayed, correct. And isn’t that mansion well known on Long Island, though not in Glen Cove (?). Several examples of artistic license in this movie but they’re all acceptable to me since they make the story enjoyable.

[@cayoran88]

Awesome!!! Cary Grant is excellent in his roles :)

[@mark5ization]

"That was mother" - yeah, I think even Emil figured that out.

[@aniket385]

Seargent A mill cleaner

[@massimodebono5165]

They dont make these excellent films anymore, what a PITY.

[@piehound]

A very droll sense of humor as was typical of Alfred Hitchcock.

[@stevepaul6955]

Instead of calling His lawyer He calls His mother lol.

[@NormAppleton]

Because his mother will call his lawyer

[@mimc325]

Assault with a gun bourbon and a sports car lmao

[@travistaylor5000]

Thanks for the lift, fellas! 😆

[@STVG71]

Oh yeah. I haven't been that drunk in 30 years but Cary nails it. Hitchcock left out the puking the next morning scene.

[@rianthompson5061]

Haha

[@Vilhelm22]

That was mother.

[@JudasAngel666]

I never got the joke of Grant saying "Emile"

[@kmac1480]

Emile Klinger.. " Jewish Forename/German Surname" I believe

[@JudasAngel666]

Oh

[@peter5886]

I'm German, this is the first time I see the original version of this scene. In the German version of this scene the lieutenant's first name isn't Emile but Orpheus. Probably to make it sound weird so that Grant's reaction makes sense.

[@NormAppleton]

@@kmac1480 French/German

[@Lefab3470]

John Beradino "Emil Klinger" was a former base ball player...

[@cossacks1232]

classic movie...those were the days, in flim, in America...and yes, in more SENSIBLE law enforcement!

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

That’s gotta leave a hangover.

[@Dakers11]

"13 Dollar ! "

[@massai175]

Glen Cove, Long Island, NY!!

[@Coop720]

"How disgusting ... "

[@bluesky6449]

video poster was drunk when describing "Cary Grand"...

Cary Grant. Grettings from Catalonia (Europe).

[@kellerrobert80]

The banter between Thornhill and the doctor is longer and funnier in the original Ernest Lehman script.

[@actioncom2748]

3:22 - You pull a stunt like that and the police will pull you off the table and throw you back into the chair.

[@rocksmeller99]

wonder if Sgt. Emil Klinger is related to Corporal Klinger on MASH?

[@cossacks1232]

lol....one can only wonder....

[@MrMaddox57]

Daaamn a bad DUI!!!!!

[@curlytoes79]

Gary Grand? I think you mean Cary Grant. lol

[@bobwoods1302]

I didn't think drunk driving was even a crime back then.

[@rocksmeller99]

@curlytoes79 maybe he had some of that bourbon, too. wonder what brand?

[@mark5ization]

Probably Four Roses - the old rotgut version.

[@rianthompson5061]

This is, kind of, funny

[@dh2838]

Emile

[@MrMaddox57]

They f-ed him up!!!!!!

[@rocksmeller99]

he didn't even have a chaser

[@stamatis02]

@FooNado Glen cove police station

[@cossacks1232]

small-town cops KNOW WHAT IS UP.

[@cossacks1232]

Common sense, especially with drunks and vagrants, minor offenders. "Come onnnnnnn!" lol

[@cossacks1232]

Like I said, I would have sobered right up, drove back to that house, either burned it to the ground or started attacking the Mason character and his goons. I just would have opened fire. Why waste time. Or hit them at the auction. I would be been enraged.

[@cossacks1232]

and that cocky, leery secretary would have been one of the FIRST to go!

[@NormAppleton]

He did, he took the cops and "mother" right back there. Mason and Landau were gone and he looked like a drunken idiot. Then to the Plaza with "mother" to find out who Kaplan was. He talks to the actual owner of the house in Clen Cove at the UN and.....que the Bernard Hermann music

[@NormAppleton]

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[@andrewgardner8972]

That will probably be Joe Biden drunk like Cary grant in this scene in north by northwest.

[@IoEstasCedonta]

What's so funny about the name "Emil"?

[@mylargebreasts]

"No, they didn't give me a chaser!"