The Fountainhead

1949

Action / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 11819 11.8K

new york city newspaper based on novel or book architect integrity objectivism

Plot summary

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

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King Vidor

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Max Linder as Party Guest
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John Alvin as Young Intellectual
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Kent Smith as Peter Keating
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Paul Stanton as Dean Who Expels Roark
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Paul C 1 / 10

The Fountainhead is one of the most unintentionally

The Fountainhead is one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of all time. It feels like a Mel Brooks parody in its overripe dialogue, acting and style. Patricia Neal's character (Dominique Francone) seems like she's in heat for Gary Cooper's architect Howard Roark. Carol Burnett would have had a field day playing her in a skit on her old show, cracking her whip, panting and salivating for Roark! Cooper is forced to give endless speeches about individualism in Ayn Rand's dreadful screenplay, while creating dull architectural designs that only evoke bland corporate modernism that was in style in the 1940s, nothing groundbreaking or memorable. I am in sympathy with the critics of the 1940s who trashed this movie. The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Its characters are downright weird ." The Daily Worker called The Fountainhead "an openly fascist movie". Cue called it "shoddy, bombastic nonsense". I only Riff Tracks (the old MST3K guys) would do this film!
Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

By far the worst Cooper performance all time

By far the worst Cooper performance all time - the speech to the jury (which would never brought an acquittal in any remotely real setting) is such a complete thud you can probably almost hear the snores in the theater. The "bad guy" architects are all philosophy majors who want to impose the iron will of people with bad taste to keep anything "modern" or "uplifting " from ever being built and their little speeches trying to hammer this idea home go on and on. There are more than a few weird and uncomfortable moments between the two male leads also which could suggest sexual attraction between them but are side stepped as they continuously tell each other how swell they think they are. . I guess this is supposed to be a woman's story though (hard to tell most of the time) and the totally lunatic dramatic arch from crazed nobody-is-going-to--own-me gal to subservient worshiper of the noble construction idealist is completely wacko. The last scene where she goes up in an unfinished elevator through the unfinished tallest building in the world gloriously viewing her waving love interest at the summit is so lame and endless. The whole production produced more unintentional laughs for me than almost anything else I have viewed in the last decade.
Reviewed by MB B. 4 / 10

Why did the director let everyone talk like

Why did the director let everyone talk like robots throughout this movie?
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