[SkateDC] North By Northwest on Thursday [Off Topic]

[George Marinkovich]

To help make up for the fact that I neglected to schedule a leader for the Wednesday Night Skate, I offer a chance to see one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films free at the Library of Congress on Thursday night.  A new schedule of leaders for May and June skates will appear soon, I promise.
Thursday, May 7, 2009 (6:30pm)
 Lincoln Bicentennial

North by Northwest (MGM, 1959). Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Wrt:
Ernest Lehman. With: Cary Grant (Roger Thornhill), Eva Marie Saint (Eve
Kendall), James Mason (Phillip Vandamm), Jessie Royce Landis (Clara
Thornhill), Leo G. Carroll (Professor), Josephine Hutchinson (Mrs.
Townsend), Philip Ober (Lester Townsend), Martin Landau (Leonard). (136
min, Technicolor, VistaVision, 35mm, copyright deposit print)



with:



The Shrine of Democracy at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota–A Memorial to Gutzon Borglum (1953). (22 min, b&w, 16mm, copyright deposit print)



"The Man on Lincoln's Nose" was one of the working titles of
Hitchcock's classic thriller about an advertising executive who is
inadvertently sucked into a convoluted espionage narrative, so
convoluted that during production Cary Grant himself expressed
confusion over the film's plot. While MGM received permission from the
National Park Service to film the establishing shots of the Mt.
Rushmore monument and the cafeteria balcony at the actual site,
problems with the use of the image of the monument emerged early on.
The Park Service objected to a draft of the script that included a
scene in which Grant and Eva Marie Saint slide down Lincoln's nose, and
following the film's U.S. premiere accused the studio of violating
their agreement's stipulation that "no scenes of violence will be
filmed near the sculpture, on the Talus Slope below the sculpture, or
any simulation or mockup of the sculpture or Talus Slope, or any
public-use area of Mount Rushmore." This resulted in the removal of the
acknowledgment for the cooperation of the U.S. Department of the
Interior and the National Park Service from later release prints.



Preceded by a compilation of newsreel footage on the building of the Mt. Rushmore monument.

Part of the Lincoln Bicentennial film series

Event Information


Location: Pickford Theater, third floor, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE
Admission: Free
Reservations: Not required
Phone: 202-707-5677
Metro: Capitol South (Blue and Orange lines)

Cheers,
George

"In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration."  -- Roger O. Thornhill