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Originally Posted by PaulC
North by Northwest (1959): Cary Grant is kidnapped by spies/ruffians who pin him down on a couch, pour a bottle of bourbon into him and set him behind the wheel of a Mercedes which is pointed towards a cliff.
Initially shown comatose behind the wheel, Cary comes around long enough to shove his pudgy would-be assassin out of the car and drive down a purported suburban Long Island road that apparently rivals a cart path in the Italian Alps for topography changes and the quantity of hairpin turns. After seeing double for half of the drive, Cary sees a young boy riding a bike across his path (an uncredited performance by wee Brian Carlton) and stomps on the brake pedal. The results are below:
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I was watching this movie last night! Hilarious part where the 220 has one spinning rear wheel dangling over a cliff's edge, then suddenly a limited-slip differential pops up from nowhere and the car begins to drive away.