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North by Northwest
In the finished film, a Frank Lloyd Wright-like house and the mythical "Cedar City," complete with an airport, perch at Mount Rushmore's summit. During the movie's climax, Thornhill, Kendall ...
The actor Terry Gilliam called magnificent: “All the heads of Mount Rushmore rolled into one”
Having worked with the likes of Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell, Terry Gilliam once named the actor he found "magnificent". Read more here.
Gene Hackman was the Mount Rushmore of movie stars – and his authority blazed like hellfire
The gloriously rumpled actor – who has died aged 95 – made his name playing broken bad guys and corrupt mentors. Yet he also had a quiet wit ...
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Hitchcock's 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 ...