Actor/Actress: Gary Cooper,
Patricia Neal,
Raymond Massey,
Kent Smith;
Director: King Vidor;
Year: 1949;
Runtime: 112 Minutes;
Film Rating: Not Rated;
Language: English;
Video: Black & White;
Closed Captioned: Y;
UPC: 012569571624;
Screen Ratio: Fullscreen;
Discs: 1;
Features: Y;
"Do you want to stand alone against the whole world?" Architect Howard
Roark has heard the voices of safety, convention, compromise.
But Roark
is a man as unyielding as the mighty structures he builds. And he will
sacrifice everything - the woman he loves or the project he dynamites
when others interfere with his design - to maintain his individuality
in a world of lockstep conformity.
Gary Cooper portrays Roark and Patricia Neal plays the troubled beauty
whose desire for him almost destroys her in this emotionally and
intellectually searing film scripted by Ayn Rand from her own novel.
From a granite quarry to Manhattan skyscrapers to a thrilling courtroom
finale with his freedom on the line, Roark does stand alone against the
whole world. And that is his most towering achievement.
