Which Hitchcock film features a climax on Mount Rushmore?

Which Hitchcock film features a climax on Mount Rushmore? North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller follows advertising executive Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant, after he is mistaken for a government agent. The chase eventually carries him across the United States and culminates among the carved presidential faces at Mount Rushmore.

The Mount Rushmore sequence was filmed largely on studio sets and with rear projection rather than during an unrestricted shoot on the monument itself. The production combined location footage, detailed set construction, and visual effects to create the dangerous cliffside pursuit involving Thornhill and Eve Kendall, played by Eva Marie Saint.

A common mix-up is Hitchcock’s use of other famous landmarks. Vertigo is strongly associated with San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and Mission San Juan Bautista, while The 39 Steps is a British espionage thriller without a Mount Rushmore climax. North by Northwest is also the film connected with the crop-duster attack and the mistaken-identity plot.