Alfred Hitchcock's "Expedient Exaggerations" and the Filming of North by Northwest at Mount Rushmore by Todd David Epp, originally published in South Dakota History, vol.23, no. 3, fall 1993, pp ...

"North by Northwest" is the Alfred Hitchcock mixture - suspense, intrigue, comedy, ... Limited, United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, Mount Rushmore National Monument, the plains of Indiana.

North by Northwest may be the ultimate Hitchcock film. ... Mount Rushmore, similar to how Hitch’s 1942 thriller Saboteur ended with the hero and villain hanging off the Statue of Liberty.

But whimsical auteur Emma Rice has long abandoned any fear of adapting impossible source material. She doesn’t attempt to faithfully recreate a given film or book so much as drag it into her own ...