+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.
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).
Thank you for posting. One of my favorite routines ever! I refer to it often when friends ask my advice a about what they should do about some "outrage" or another.
i was planning to upload this sketch years ago...but because this is a mgm,tcm movie i decided not to for obvious reasons..nice to see it here for all to enjoy..a funny sketch then but lawyers are like this today..no regard for other people money .
This is funny. When humor was about a funny situation and understood years later. Not vicious jokes about politicians or somebody's religion. Even in later years Johnny Carson could do this. I remember his "who's on first" routine involving Pres. Reagan. I'll bet Reagan even got a good laugh if he saw it.
This is hysterical 🤣. His lawyer stinks 😅. Pay the $2 dollars. Too funny. Just saw this on TURNER CLASSIC MGM PARADE. I love the line I've been waiting 12 days for you to come back in 20 minutes. 😁 😂 Too funny. Those old movies had clever funny lines.
😄😄😄😄😄 Just pay the two dollars😭😭😭😭😭This is hilarious. I mean, I would've just asked someone else to do it. It cost him more. He knew his lawyer was a bad lawyer and a cheapskate. He spent over 463,000+ of his clients money and sentenced to d**th..gudness sue the lawyer!!!
@@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.
This is the origin of the expression "Pay the Two dollars" that appears in the film North by Northwest.
+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).
A strange kind of hell is depicted here. Very well done.
A classic...thank you!
You're welcome! My dad wanted to see it again, he is 84, so I made it for him. He loves it, too. :)
Thank you for posting. One of my favorite routines ever! I refer to it often when friends ask my advice a about what they should do about some "outrage" or another.
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 love that skit! I have the Ziegfeld Follies DVD which has some other funny ones.
i was planning to upload this sketch years ago...but because this is a mgm,tcm movie i decided not to for obvious reasons..nice to see it here for all to enjoy..a funny sketch then but lawyers are like this today..no regard for other people money .
I found it and uploaded it for my dad, who is 86, loves it and is a lawyer. :)
Absolutely LOVE THIS!!
If I was in Victor's shoes, the first thing I'd do is fire that lawyer.
This is funny. When humor was about a funny situation and understood years later. Not vicious jokes about politicians or somebody's religion. Even in later years Johnny Carson could do this. I remember his "who's on first" routine involving Pres. Reagan. I'll bet Reagan even got a good laugh if he saw it.
Its classic
It is only funny when you are not in a similar situation.
This is hysterical 🤣.
His lawyer stinks 😅.
Pay the $2 dollars. Too funny. Just saw this on TURNER
CLASSIC MGM PARADE.
I love the line I've been waiting 12 days for you to come back in 20 minutes. 😁 😂 Too funny. Those old movies had clever funny lines.
Edward Arnold is cracking me up!!
Hilarious! The irony is a side-splitter. Why oh, why did he not sock his lawyer is beyond me.
Classic !!!
Spreading a virus on a subway. Sounds familiar.
Very interesting right??
Who's Willie Howard?
😄😄😄😄😄 Just pay the two dollars😭😭😭😭😭This is hilarious. I mean, I would've just asked someone else to do it. It cost him more. He knew his lawyer was a bad lawyer and a cheapskate. He spent over 463,000+ of his clients money and sentenced to d**th..gudness sue the lawyer!!!
That's the newest price for the Clintons' speaking tour.
What year was this made?
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.
Looks like Rudi these days ;)
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