[atomicpossum]

As an aside, the film version of 'The Fountainhead' is an absolutely laughable failure. Due, foremost and primarily, to Rand herself who exercised dominating control of the project and drove it into the ground.

[Borges]

That film has some ardent fans among film buffs. Look at this Dave Kehr blurb:

"King Vidor turned Ayn Rand's preposterous "philosophical" novel into one of his finest and most personal films (1949), mainly by pushing the phallic imagery so hard that it surpasses Rand's rightist diatribes and even camp ("I wish I'd never seen your skyscraper!"), entering some uncharted dimension where melodrama and metaphysics exist side by side. The images have a dynamism, a spatial tension, that comes partly from Frank Lloyd Wright (whose life Rand appropriated for her novel) and partly from Eisenstein, yet the pattern of their deployment is Vidor's own: the emotions rise and fall in broad, operatic movements that are unmistakably sexual and irresistibly involving."

[FreeKeys]

the film version of 'The Fountainhead' is an absolutely laughable failure.
-- You forgot to add the customary "IMAO" after that one.

Well, I liked it, and it was considered a box-office success at the time:

"...helped place Vidor once more in the front rank of Hollywood directors. His film The Fountainhead (1949) only solidified his reputation as a stylist, with its audacious (and stunning) visual content and a drama that walked a fine line between the fiercely sexual and the coldly intellectual; like most of Vidor's best movies, it has improved with age. Alas, it was to be the director's last major triumph..." -- from http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800036162&cf=biog&intl=us