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(1949) Gary Cooper plays Ayn Rand's idealistic architect Howard Roark, who takes on the world to defend his creations from corruption and compromise, and Patricia Neal is the woman whose unquenched desire for him almost destroys her in King Vidor's striking film of Rand's novel, scripted by the author herself. Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Robert Douglas, Henry Hull, and Ray Collins co-star.

Box set of five features starring the lanky, laconic, slow-speaking and straight-shooting American icon, Gary Cooper. He won an Oscar for Best Actor playing the homespun World War I hero Sergeant York: Two-Disc Special Edition (1941) in Howard Hawks' paean to patriotism, and took on the uncompromising architect Howard Roark in the film version of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead (1949), directed by King Vidor. Both films are also available separately; see Cult and Classic for further details. The following three films are exclusive to the set: the Technicolor western Dallas (1950), co-starring Ruth Roman and Steve Cochran; Springfield Rifle (1952), a Civil War western directed by Andre de Toth and co-starring Phyllis Thaxter and Lon Chaney; and the action thriller The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959), co-starring Charlton Heston.