| Hot Dogs for Gauguin | |
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| Directed by | Martin Brest |
| Written by | Martin Brest |
| Starring | Danny DeVito Rhea Perlman Martin Brest |
| Cinematography | Jacques Haitkin |
| Edited by | Martin Brest |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $800.00 |
Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972) is a short student film written and directed byMartin Brest, then an undergraduate at New York University, featuringDanny DeVito andRhea Perlman in her acting debut.[1]
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 theStatue of Liberty and capture the photograph.
In 2009, it was one of 25 films selected for theNational Film Registry by theLibrary of Congress to "be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures."[2][3][4] In 2024 it entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.