You're welcome! My dad wanted to see it again, he is 84, so I made it for him. He loves it, too. :)

+Peter Piper Roger :In North by Northwest, Thornhill's mother tells him jokingly, "Pay the two dollars," after he futilely attempts to shed light on his kidnapping and be exonerated from his DWI charge. The line is a reference to a Depression-era Willie Howard vaudeville sketch written by Billy K. Wells. A man is in court to pay a $2 fine for spitting on the subway, but his lawyer insists on fighting the case. As the lawyer incurs greater and greater sentences, his defendant keeps pleading, "Pay the two dollars!" This sketch also appeared in Ziegfeld Follies (1945) with Edward Arnold portraying the attorney.

@@MACKUTCHER - so who did it first, Willie Howard or Victor Moore, and Edward Arnold?

That didn’t appear in North by Northwest. You didn’t watch North by Northwest

@@seandafny Yes. Yes it did.

Yes. An old vaudeville sketch. As My father worked in vaudeville with Gypsy Rose Le and wrote shtik for various performers (used int he films) I was wondering about this. Sounds like something my father would say and/or write (as a gag).

My dad told me about it. His favorite. He's 86.

I actually said it to a judge when I was fighting a parking ticket. He didn't get the reference so I explained it. He let me off without a fine.

I found it and uploaded it for my dad, who is 86, loves it and is a lawyer. :)

Its classic

It is only funny when you are not in a similar situation.

Very interesting right??

1945

@@RandomVideoVault Thanks for the video. Can you make out what the lawyer shouts at the end? I am not English.

@@Medietos "Don't say anything, Victor, until you hear from me!"

@@RandomVideoVault Thanks! OMG, and the lawyer is exploiting him all the while. Similar to like a lawyer did to me: Not really preparing me for the hearing in court, not supporting me in finding somewhere to sleep or to soothe me so that I could in fact get sleep, despite it saying in the law that someone severely sleep-deprived can't be made appear in court (since one can't function then and has to save one's life-energy, even strong, healthy, young soldiers). He suggested to be preparing and taking responsibility for the case, telling me to leave it to him and not informing me how it worked and what was going to happen in the hearing, i e I couldn't prepare myself and was held in more tension and insecurity of not knowing, kept in infantile impotence. He asked me to keep quiet, which made me think he had a plan. He was markedly nervous in there, and only afterwards as the deceit was a fact did I realize it was out of fear I might say sth that proved the scheme against me and against the law or be on false grounds: I am sane and should not have a guardian, but a Good Man. As I studied law at night, as well as I could in my burnt-out, traumatized sick state, instead of getting needed sleep, he even dismissed what I learnt from Engl/Am. law to not be valid in Sweden. But I am sure it is, for the most part. But believed him. And lay down defending myself pretty much. But he did nothing in the hearing then, to defend me! And the Notary didn't write everything down as is her task, and twisted some things. As well as being a stand in who had not read my case, she told me afterwards! And the changed judges 3 times, in that small case, possibly to further de-stabilize and weaken me. Aspergers' have it much more difficult than others to manage new people and situations. I wonder how much they know about the human being, that one can act as though stupid in a state of long-term sleep deprivation and unresolved trauma with re-traumatizations. Might they go along with harming one thinking one is not worthy of anything better? Because why else did the bank chief meet with me in such a strange, tacitly dishonest-seeming way, and with another man present at that? Was it to see if I was flawed in some sense that could ease his conscience at giving my money away? I don't expect you to know this, sorry, just trying to process a bit, and IF you happen to know and want to share, it'd mean much to me.

Most of the principal photography for the film was shot in 1944 and went through a production h*ll till the film was edited and released a year or so later.