Plenty of "expedient exaggerations" surrounded the filming of scenes for Hitchcock's acclaimed thriller North by Northwest at Mount Rushmore in 1958.

It would be strange, would it not, if, in a city of seven million people, one man were never mistaken for another… But that is exactly what happens to Roger Thornhill, reluctant hero of North by ...

For Hitchcock, filming North by Northwest had its challenges. He wasn't able to get permission to film inside the United Nations, so he sneakily had the building's exterior filmed and used it as a ...