Hot Dogs for Gauguin
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| 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 |
Release date |
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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 by Martin Brest, then an undergraduate at New York University, featuring Danny DeVito and Rhea 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 the Statue of Liberty and capture the photograph.