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2 July 1949 (USA) moreTagline:
No Man Takes What's Mine ! morePlot:
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 synopsisNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
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)
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What Might Have Been more (137 total)Cast
(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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Mono (RCA Sound System)Fun Stuff
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Hoping this film would make her a star, Warner Bros cast a relative unknown, 22-year-old Patricia Neal, after considering and then rejecting Bette Davis, Ida Lupino and Barbara Stanwyck for the female lead. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Cameron smashes the window in Roark's office, you can see that the flag outside the window flying in the skyline is not rippling and therefore is part of a photographic backdrop rather than a live location. moreQuotes:
Howard Roark: I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build! moreFAQ
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This might have been, in fact, a great movie. Vidor directs with a sure and excellently paced hand; the visual elements are striking; and young Pat Neal is a raw marvel on screen. This is not a great movie because someone made the spectacular mistake of letting Rand write the screenplay. Thus, her objectivist philosophy is ludicrously masked as dialogue. Please note: I care little about her views themselves. I can admire a fine script and disagree with its message. But this is downright cartoonish. Dull businessmen say things like, 'Say, Roark, there's no point to trying something new!', or, 'Look here, old man, just go along with what the people like!' I don't exaggerate - it really is that overblown, and poor Gary Cooper looks awfully embarrassed when he has to defend his integrity in equally dreadful lines. A shame, all around. And not much in the way of promoting Rand's dream, to be sure. Who can subscribe to a movement with so inept a spokesperson?