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2 July 1949 (USA)
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No Man Takes What's Mine ! more
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An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards. full summary | add synopsis
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Who Isn't John Galt?
(From Huffington Post. 27 August 2009, 3:35 PM, PDT)
The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.
(From Huffington Post. 4 June 2009, 3:09 AM, PDT)
(From Huffington Post. 27 August 2009, 3:35 PM, PDT)
The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.
(From Huffington Post. 4 June 2009, 3:09 AM, PDT)
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(Complete credited cast) | Gary Cooper | ... | Howard Roark |
 | Patricia Neal | ... | Dominique Francon |
| Raymond Massey | ... | Gail Wynand |
| Kent Smith | ... | Peter Keating |
| Robert Douglas | ... | Ellsworth M. Toohey |
| Henry Hull | ... | Henry Cameron |
| Ray Collins | ... | Roger Enright |
| Moroni Olsen | ... | Chairman |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Alvah Scarret |
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114 min
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Continuity: When Roark is having his first meeting with Toohey he has a copy of the Banner in his hand. When Roark says "I read that in your column yesterday" the paper in his hands is open. The scene shifts perspective to Roark from behind and the paper is folded.
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A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!
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This overheated potboiler attempts to make a social comment on the corrupt nature of conforming to the wishes of the masses, when its most interesting aspect these days is the teaming on screen (and off) of gruff-voiced Patricia Neal and her self-confessed 'love of her life', Gary Cooper. Their love scenes together are certainly not lukewarm!
Aside from this, there's a convoluted plot about architecture, the newspaper business, and the understated power of the humble columnist. Raymond Massey moves from one situation to the next with the same lack of passion, eventually giving Cooper and Neal their chance to simmer in close proximity. Robert Douglas is terrific as the obnoxious architectural critic, Ellsworth Toohey; while Kent Smith and Henry Hull put in OK performances as a weak architect of little originality, and a nervous press room editor, respectively.
The ones who catch the eye of the viewer, however, are Neal and Cooper. Towering performances in camp classic style. The imagery, too, is suitably suggestive – drills in a stone quarry, large skyscraping buildings, whips and pokers.
'The Fountainhead', adapted by Ayn Rand from her own novel and brought to the screen under the direction of King Vidor, is enjoyable despite the odd bout of overacting from both its principal and minor actors, and a truly silly script on occasion. The movie isn't great but in using the world in which it is set as a character of equivalent power to anyone on the screen, it sets itself apart as more than just run-of-the-mill.