Ipswich Film Society

The Fountainhead (1949)

2006/07 Season

THE FOUNTAINHEAD

USA 1949 (PG) - 114 minutes
Directed by King Vidor

Ipswich Film Theatre - 16 October 2006 - 7.30pm
An up and coming architect with ideals clashes with big business. Based on the Ayn Rand novel, this stars Gary Cooper as an unorthodox designer who destroys a building, marries an heiress and makes a final statement by erecting a startling memorial to a dead friend.
AUDIENCE COMMENTS: Brilliant. The melodrama, the emotions, the ultimatums. Echoes of Citizen Kane and the dark political philosophy of post-war USA; Fantastically awful or awfully fantastic. I'm not sure, but I loved it; So many words. Too many words. More sex, please; Terrible hackneyed idealogies, badly stated and acted, awful props, dialogues, dreadful overblown tosh, bit I laughed a lot; A mock gothic monstrosity that deserved to be dynamited on completion.

The Fountainhead (1949)

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