You ought to know that!" -- Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Alfred Hitchcock at Mount Rushmore during the filming of North By Northwest.

Some of the most famous images of Mount Rushmore are from Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic spy movie, North by Northwest. Ernest Lehman, the screenwriter, recalled being asked by "Hitch" to come up ...

Mount Rushmore, similar to how Hitch’s 1942 thriller Saboteur ended with the hero and villain hanging off the Statue of Liberty. This ending alone is worth seeing North by Northwest on the big ...

taking us everywhere from the posh and modernist interiors of New York City and Chicago to a vast, flat, Midwestern cornfield to, finally, the gigantic faces of Mount Rushmore above Rapid City.

Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest may well be one of cinema’s most recognisable spy thrillers. From its distinctive title ...

Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore.