Knock on Wood (1954)

Mai Zetterling: Dr. Ilse Nordstrom

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Quotes 

• Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : Tell me, Jerry, why are you so unhappy?

  Jerry Morgan : [regressed to when he was five-years-old]  Because my mummy and daddy are always fighting and yelling and screaming at each other and throwing things and everything.

  Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : And why do they do that?

  Jerry Morgan : They have to - they're married.

• Jerry Morgan : Dr. Nordstrom, I'd like to explain about this morning. I'm really not in the habit of taking showers with strange women... or even those I know very well.

  Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : Please...

  [She's about to give him an injection] 

  Jerry Morgan : But I want to assure you, doctor, that if I had to take a shower with someone,. There's no one in the world I would rather... You better give me that shot.

• Jerry Morgan : Would you like to dance?

  Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : You may be sorry. I'll probably be all feet.

  Jerry Morgan : Yeah, but the rest of you makes it so worthwhile. C'mon!

• Jerry Morgan : It's all so simple, anybody could understand it. There was Brodnik and Gromek, and Shoshlik and Brutchik. Now, Gromek got it from Brodnik, who brought it to Shoshlik, who in turn gave it to Brutchik. You see, the stuff was in Clarence

  [his wooden dummy] 

  Jerry Morgan : but it was also in Terence

  [his other wooden dummy] 

  Jerry Morgan : . Now, they didn't know Clarence from Terence, or Terence from Clarence. So, Gromek killed Shoshlik. Have you got that? G-R-O-M-E-K.

  Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : Mmm hmm.

  Jerry Morgan : Gromek killed the first Shoshllik. The second Shoshlik got Papinek.

  Chief Inspector Wilton : Papinek?

  Jerry Morgan : Yeah.

  Chief Inspector Wilton : Maurice Papinek?

  Jerry Morgan : Yes, but he's not important. He's not the brains. That's him - that's the spy.

  [Pointing to Godfrey Langston] 

• Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : [When Jerry wakes up in the bed next to hers in her hotel room]  What are you doing here?

  Jerry Morgan : [Thought he had wandered half asleep into Marty's room in the middle of the night to escape the loud radiator]  Where is Marty?

  Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : Marty?

  Jerry Morgan : This is strictly a business trip, and he knows it. Now where is he?

• Doctor Kreuger : Why do they fight?

  Jerry Morgan : [Under sedation]  Because, mommy says that daddy is always looking at Zelda, the fire eater. And then, of course, there's his drinking.

  Dr. Ilse Nordstrom : And just how bad is that?

  Jerry Morgan : I don't know, but mommy says that if you can buy it, burn it, or bottle it; if you could sip it, swallow it, gurgle it or gargle it; if you could squirt it out of a bottle or squeeze it out of a damn bread, or just put it in a glass and swish it around - he'll drink it.