Ever Pick Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?

I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags, and I'm gonna nail you for pickin your feet in Poughkeepsie!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• french connection
• Gene Hackman
• Roy Scheider
• Poughkeepsie
• drug bust
• pick your feet

[BeeCeeEff]

0:43 and 1:08 check out Roy Scheider's reaction (cracking up and walking away). Gene Hackman must have improvised the "picking your feet" and "bowling scores" lines so Roy Scheider had to walk away or blow the whole scene. FANTASTIC!

[chadley6916]

@DoomSiren

French Connection. Nevermind guthywoodry...I guess he thinks everyone should know this or they are stupid?! He is just trying to showboat a little...I guess he doesn't realize he comes off like the dick...

[commandosolo2009]

You picked your feet in Poughkeepsie?? Huh?? I wanna hear it!! GH epicness!

[kolisionn]

the 70s will undeniably always be known for being the best decade in film. so many classics came out of the 70s

[mharrin5507]

Greatest non sequitur of all time.

[Snake711cool]

GENE HACKMAN FOR LIFE

[kkarls1]

Ah haha this movie is fantastic, Hackman and Scheider are nails together. And Roy does look like he's trying not to laugh here in a couple of parts! It fits with the scene, but it's also pretty funny in real life.

[STP43FAN1]

@BeeCeeEff The amazing thing is this was supposed to be the first scene shot (in December 1970) but it never went right and they shot the rest of the film first before redoing this scene.

[speeta]

@tomloft2000 It's true, Gene was having trouble getting into the role of the racist, abusive cop when this scene was first shot early on in the production; the footage was not used. Near the end of filming the scene was reshot as seen here, much better.

[speeta]

0:31 to 0:48 Roy seems to be off his mark, blocking Alan's face while he's delivering his lines. Otherwise, that must have been the best take.

[CitySkin09]

"Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna NAIL you for pickin' your feet in Poughkeepsie." -- ROFL!!

[STP43FAN1]

@danstrummer Egan was always upset because the technique isn't done right in the movie. What Egan did was the old "fluster the perp into confessing" interrogation technique; here the technique is just a means to abuse the suspect.