Hot Dogs for Gauguin

Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972) is a short film written and directed by Martin Brest, then an undergraduate film student at New York University, featuring Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman in her acting debut.

Plot
DeVito plays a photographer inspired by the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937 and determined to capture his own visual magic and fame. He concocts a plot to explode the Statue of Liberty.

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."