Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972) is a short student film written and directed by Martin Brest, then an undergraduate at New York University, featuring a then unknown Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman in her acting debut.
Plot DeVito plays a starving photographer determined to capture fame and fortune. Inspired by the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster of 1937, he conceives a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and capture the photograph.
Reception and legacy In 2009, it was one of 25 films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress to "be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures.""Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry", Library of Congress (December 30, 2009)"Thriller and 24 Other Films Named to National Film Registry", Associated Press via Yahoo News (December 30, 2009) In 2024 it entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Hot Dogs for Gauguin essay by Daniel Eagan In America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide To The 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry In 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011, pages 135-138 Hot Dogs for Gauguin on YouTube