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It's a new technique they developed in Rochester.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:48:12 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Pull. Left hand, 80. Right... 2.

- There's a pronounced discrepancy in the reflexes.

- Indubitably.

- We seem to be confronted with a classic syndrome. Wouldn't you say so, Professor Winterhalter?

- I once saw a similar case in Zurich. Also fake.

- Fascinating, isn't it? The way we can now corroborate subjective symptoms.

- It's a new technique they developed in Rochester.

- I know. I read all about it in Time magazine.

- Well, gentlemen, I think we must agree that our findings are not inconsistent with an exacerbation of the median nerve in the lumbar plexus.

- I agree.

- So do I.

- Are we then unanimous in our evaluation, Professor Winterhalter?

- Fake! All these newfangled machines. Fake! They prove nothing. In the old days, we used to do these things better.

- A man says he's paralyzed, we simply throw him in the snake pit. If he climbs out, then we know he's lying.

- And if he doesn't climb out?

- Then we have lost a patient, but we have found an honest man.

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The Fortune Cookie (1966) Sound Clip

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Actors: Jack Lemmon (Harry Hinkle), Walter Matthau (Whiplash Willie Gingrich), Ron Rich (Boom Boom Jackson), Judi West (Sandy Hinkle)

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