--- ---  # See Mount Rushmore's Most Memorable Moments at the Movies by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) and [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/) Oct 31, 2016 6:40 PM UTC  The Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills near Keystone, S.D., on April 22, 2008. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills near Keystone, S.D., on April 22, 2008.Mike Stewart—AP by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) and [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/) Oct 31, 2016 6:40 PM UTC Movie lovers may be most likely to settle down on the evening of October 31 with a classic horror film, but those weary of ghouls and chainsaws can choose to celebrate a different holiday this Halloween: Mount Rushmore’s [75th birthday](http://time.com/4508007/mount-rushmore-anniversary-photos/). Since its completion on this day in 1941, the [monument](http://time.com/2946741/mount-rushmore-construction-photos/) has inspired reverence for presidents past, ire over its [disregard for Native American history](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/rushmore-sioux/) and, as with anything so iconically American, plenty of movie moments. From [Hitchcock](http://time.com/3977310/alfred-hitchcock-quotations/) to [Burton](http://time.com/4202194/tim-burton-disney-gallery/) to [Stone and Parker](http://time.com/4420520/south-park-creators-we-came-up-with-pokemon-go-first/), here are some of Hollywood’s most memorable tributes to—and computer-enhanced demo jobs on—those granite faces in South Dakota. . Mount Rushmore in the Movies: Happy 75th Birthday ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4552027/mount-rushmore-movies-anniversary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4552027/mount-rushmore-movies-anniversary/"},"headline":"See Mount Rushmore's Most Memorable Moments at the Movies","datePublished":"2016-10-31T18:40:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T12:16:52.066Z","description":"In honor of the monument's 75th anniversary","url":"https://time.com/4552027/mount-rushmore-movies-anniversary/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ac97f0d524b96b5/6988ac44524fc0437ddfa0da/mount-rushmore.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ac97f0d524b96b5/6988ac44524fc0437ddfa0da/mount-rushmore.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rushmore Turns 75","caption":"FILE - This April 22, 2008, aerial file photo shows the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills near Keystone, S.D. In October 2016, the memorial that through the years has become the state's most famous attraction and draws about 3 million v","creditText":"Mike Stewart—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4552027/mount-rushmore-movies-anniversary/","name":"See Mount Rushmore's Most Memorable Moments at the Movies"}}]}] ```