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    The Fountainhead

    1949 · Drama · 1h 54m

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  1. Unconventional and arrogant architect Howard Roark (Gary Cooper) sees himself as misunderstood, having been openly criticized by writer Ellsworth Toohey (Robert Douglas). Taking a job at a quarry...

  2. With Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith. An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

    • (11K)
    • Drama, Romance
    • King Vidor
    • 1949-07-02
  3. While The Fountainhead opened to negative reviews upon initial release, the film has since been reappraised and received significantly more positive reception in the early years of the 21st century. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 83% based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10.

  4. May 6, 2015 · Richard Brody reviews the 1949 movie of “The Fountainhead,” which the director King Vidor adapted from Ayn Rand's novel of the same name.

  5. Apr 25, 2011 · April 25, 2011 by EmanuelLevy. King Vidor took Ayn Rand’s didactic and pretentious novel of the same title (inspired by the life Frank Lloyd Wright), about individual creativity, power and compromise, and turned it into a highly enjoyable, juicy Freudian melodrama. Among other reasons, the movie became a cause celebre, due to the illicit ...

  6. Jul 12, 2013 · Great movie review. The Fountainhead wasn’t my favorite. I actually liked Atlas Shrugged more of the two books. Even though I disagree with much of her philosophy. And a review of the Atlas Shrugged movie(s) would not go well. I was, when younger, on the far left on economics reading and leaning toward Marx. I was economically illiterate.

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    • 114 min
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