Where is the house located in the film NORTH BY NORTHWEST that Cary
Grant climbs along the outside brickwall and peers inside at Eva Marie
Saint?  The scene is right toward the end of the movie, just before
they crawl all over Mt. Rushmore.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 18 Jul 2005 20:09 PDT

Please let me know whether this article provides a fully satisfactory answer:

http://www.jetsetmodern.com/modatmovies.htm

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Clarification of Question by mohairsam-ga on 19 Jul 2005 06:26 PDT

You hit the nail on the head! I have tried everywhere to find the
answer and you came up with it so quickly. Thanks and the $'s are
yours. Mohairsam

I'm glad to have been able to help you with this. When I was in
college (many decades ago), I once won a bet with a friend who
believed that the house in "North by Northwest" was a real house
designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. My friend was so certain of this that
he was willing to wager $20. There was no Internet then, but some time
spent at the library revealed that the house was actually a set
constructed specifically for the film.

"The simple truth about the Vandamm house is that it was not a real
structure, and that it was not designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It was
designed by MGM set designers for some very specific reasons; some of
the reasons had to do with the movie?s plot, some were based in the
mechanics of movie-making, and not a few were because Alfred Hitchcock
had a point to make...

The house would be created entirely in Culver City, where MGM was
located. It would consist of a few sections built at full-scale, as
movie sets. The exterior shots would depend on special effects.
Certain shots would blend the sets together with the special effects,
to create the illusion that the house was real."

Jetset: Modernism at the Movies
http://www.jetsetmodern.com/modatmovies.htm

This is the Google search string that led me to the site linked above:

Google Web Search: house "north by northwest" hitchcock
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=house+%22north+by+northwest%22+hitchcock

Best regards,
pinkfreud