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.12 October 1958. PD.

In an after-dinner speech, Hitchcock told the story of how he tried to get permission to film: "In North by Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's ...

North by Northwest may be the ultimate Hitchcock film. Ernest Lehman’s Oscar ... leads to an iconic climax atop a famed monument, Mount Rushmore, similar to how Hitch’s 1942 thriller Saboteur ...

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.