- Actors: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Robert Douglas
- Directors: King Vidor
- Writers: Ayn Rand
- Producers: Henry Blanke
- Format: NTSC, Import
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: MGM (Warner)
- VHS Release Date: Sep 1 1998
- Run Time: 114 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6301969294
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Campy Madness,
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This review is from: Fountainhead (VHS Tape)
Genius Ayn Rand can be blamed for lobbying to hire over-the-hill, former cowboy, laconic, lethargic, passive Gary Cooper to play her anti-hero, Howard Roark in this lunatic camp classic. The minute he comes on the screen, you would think he was Howard Roark's father. He's totally devoid of the intense fanaticism that made Roark such a memorable character. Why, oh, why, didn't Director King Vidor over-ride the egomaniacal Rand and consider some of the other hopefuls: tough guy Dane Clark, tough, romantic John Garfield, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas. Orson Welles, still svelte and brilliant, would have been fantastic. etc. Give Rand credit for wanting Greta Garbo for Dominique Francon but by this time, the eccentric, reclusive Garbo had already withdrawn from reality to such a degree she could no longer appear before a camera. Ida Lupino would have been terrific. But no, they went with newcomer Patricia Neal who comes across as just as a pretty American girl with too much money. The miscasting destroyed any hopes of this movie ever achieving greatness. Cooper reportedly demanded star close-ups, camera set-ups favoring him, dialogue rewritten, etc. They should try remaking the movie today,using stage actors and not the pretty bratpack of Pitt, Affleck, Cruise, Depp, etc. As for Dominique, please, God, not Gwenyth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder, Nicole Kidman, etc.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
You don't need to know about the book to enjoy this film,
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This review is from: Fountainhead (VHS Tape)
While it was based on Ayn Rand's book, Ayn Rand personally altered the story to adapt it to film. It is a great movie that really makes the viewer think about many things including individualism, selfishness, and even what is right and wrong. For many people who take these notions as given from a very young, questioning them with an adult mind is a good idea. If you enjoy this movie, be sure to pick up and read some of Ayn Rand's non-fiction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Disappointment,
By M J Miller (Park City, UT, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fountainhead (VHS Tape)
Whatever you thought of the book - and I loved it - this film adaptation is a failure. The casting, the screenplay (in which Rand herself had a hand) fail to do the book justice. For the definitive film adaptation of Ayn Rand, I highly recommend the Italian-made "We The Living".
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