The Fountainhead
Summary:
The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned after Frank Lloyd Wright. Rather than compromise his ideals, Roark takes menial work as a quarryman to finance his projects. He falls in love with heiress Dominique (Patricia Neal), but ends the relationship when he has the opportunity to construct bu... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Gary Cooper - (Howard Roark)
Patricia Neal - (Dominique Francon)
Raymond Massey - (Gail Wynand)
Kent Smith - (Peter Keating)
Henry Hull - (Henry Cameron)
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Review:
Ayn Rand's adaptation of her own classic novel deconstructs numerous provocative and age-old societal opposites: integrity vs. conformity, the individual vs. the collective, selfishness vs. selflessness, power vs. weakness. The Fountainhead couches these in the deceptively fertile subject of architecture, and casts the unflappable Gary Coop... Continue >>
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