# Great police interview/interrogation scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 24, 2023, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617 "2023-11-24T08:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/61 "2023-12-03T16:59:05Z")
That wasn’t a romantic thriller. That was an [exploitation film](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_film). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/62 "2023-12-03T17:09:09Z")
Structurally, it’s an erotic thriller. This happened when I was studying developmental editing. So it’s a somewhat different way of looking at stories. Not even the only way, or the best way, just one way to look at them. And at the time I was looking for stories structured similar to mine. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/63 "2023-12-04T13:57:17Z")
> **[The Interview (1998) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120714/reference/)** > > The Interview (1998) Reference View Hugo Weaving in the Intervew ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/64 "2023-12-04T22:53:00Z")
Mentioned at least twice already. ---
**Author:** ![GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grunthostheflatulent/32/21319_2.png) [@GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrunthosTheFlatulent)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/65 "2023-12-05T00:10:23Z")
The Al Pacino/Hank Azaria scene in Michael Mann’s Heat. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/66 "2023-12-05T01:12:36Z")
Good ones, and Welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/67 "2023-12-05T07:37:58Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > So, in search of such a scene, I’ve been through my French _film noir_ library, skimming through classics in the genre, from _Rififi_ to _Touchez pas au grisbi,_ and I can’t find a good example. These movies tend to focus heavily on the criminal side of the underworld, and I haven’t come up with a scene where one of the lawbreakers gets plunked down in an interview room and grilled. _Pickpocket,_ for example, has a few interactions between the title character and police officials, but it’s generally in the immediate wake of having been caught plying his trade, rather than the interrogation afterward. You might want to check a movie called _Le Trou_. It’s a prison-break movie (one of the first). It’s been years since I saw it, but I remember it involves a relatively young prisoner being put in a cell with four older convicts. He gains their trust and is let in on their attempt to escape, but is also pressured by the warden to reveal anything he has learned. I don’t recall if there’s a specific interrogation scene, but it’s still worth seeing. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617/68 "2024-05-04T20:16:33Z")
Chekov in ST:IV-TVH Name My name? No, my name! I do not know your name It’s like he’s some kind of retard or something [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-police-interview-interrogation-scenes/993617.md?page=3)