The Fountainhead

Cooper and Neal have chemistry for sure, but the script is prosaic and preachy. Enjoy it as a Rand acolyte or enjoy Neal’s beauty and Cooper’s strength.

Real life lovers, Cooper and Neal, she was nearly half his age. She aborted his child he went back to his wife. Cooper wasn't really the Howard Roark of the novel but there is no denying the heat in his scenes with Neal. She made a great Miss Frankon. The scenes with the design firm gluing broken pediments and other frivolities to Roark's model was priceless. The sets are great. If you can past Cooper's bad courtroom scene, it's an admirable adaptation of the book, without the Rand rantings.

An outstanding movie that does justice to one of the best books ever written. Gary Cooper does a fantastic job playing Howard Roark, the man of unsurpassable integrity (much like the roll he plays in "High Noon" as marshal Will Kane). This movie is a great testimony to the great ideal throughout history: freedom of the individual and supremacy of individual rights over collectivism.

This motion is more than a classic monument to ideas. It is a testimony to an ideal. It should be played in every school of thought across the globe. A brilliant story. I rented it but will return and buy it for my library. 10 /10 Rand's writing is epic in it's conclusion about non conformity in society and the right to be an individual . Who makes films like this anymore with this kind of essence.

given the time it was made.. not bad.. by todays standards a load of crap. If you have read the book, you'll understand.. key points of the author are completely edited out.. the looters butchered the story.. Want the whole truth.. read the book, and skip the cheap attempt at a screenplay and bad acting..

I Rented the movie, downloaded to my iPhone how do I play it lol

Very good movie with wonderful acting, if the viewer understands that the story is based on Rand's various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between the ideal man of independent-mindedness and the mindless mob. The movie also illustrates flaws in Rand's thinking that few people have original ideas or something of value to offer the world.

The first reviewer nailed it including Pat's performance. Makes one wonder whether this person knew her. Great film.

This film is very intense and well made. Ms. Rand was courageous in writing this novel and also getting the chance to write the screenplay as well. She did a fantastic job. Because when you read the novel, it appears that a man might have written it. But when it comes to portraying the "hero", Gary Cooper is who we see, not Howard Roark. As Howard Roark, Cooper is not really "true" to himself, in fact, he is as manipulative as Peter Keating - and also a lot shewrder and as dangerous as Mr. Toohey. As Dominque, Ms. Neal showed us that her "obsession" was not Howard Roark, but indeed Gary Cooper, which enhanced and made her performance all that more devastating. Pat Neal actually became a "hero"! Taking on the world and being an "individual" is quite different than being "yourself" and being true to whom you "really" are!