Considered one of director Kind Vidor’s greatest, The Fountainhead sees acclaimed actor Gary Cooper slip into the role of Howard Roark. Cooper is known for his roles in High Noon, and drama classic The Hanging Tree.
Roark is an architect, one with a vision that will not succumb to populist views. Nettled, the media liaises with a fellow architect to taint Roark’s reputation. Of course Roark solace in a woman with a similar vision, but the film was a hit at the time. Not that Ayn Rand’s popular novel, off which The Fountainhead was based, helped at all.
