'got the tape. My favorite Cooper role - and Patricia Neal was perfect as Dominique - Even Raymond Massey was good.
Powerful movie - but even tho' Rand had a lot of say in it's filming, she was still unhappy - and didn't want Hollywood to get it's hands on "Atlas"
I have the Italian production of “We the Living.” It was made by the fascists and they were all proud of it, in addition it was also produced without Rand’s knowledge or authorization. When she finally got her hands on it, she was surprised at how accurately the fascists had been. She said something to the effect that if she had directed and produced it she couldn’t imagine it would have been better.
I find it comical that the fascists produced such an accurate rendering of “We the Living” while never realizing that they were producing a movie that was actually anti-fascism.
“even tho’ Rand had a lot of say in it’s filming, she was still unhappy - and didn’t want Hollywood to get it’s hands on “Atlas””
I’m not sure how correct you are. FWIW, IMDB says:
# According to Variety The Godfather (1972) producer Albert S. Ruddy spent years trying to bring Atlas Shrugged (2009) to the big screen, attracting the interest of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway along the way.
# In the late 1970s, NBC had plans to bring Atlas Shrugged (2009) to television as one of the multi-part mini-series popular at the time. Ayn Rand wanted Farrah Fawcett to star, but the project never materialized.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/trivia
I had heard Angelina Jolie was involved in this project, but until this thread, had never read that it was to be a mini-series. FWIW, mini-series plans appear abandoned (that’s the inference I draw from IMDB) and if movie ever appears, it’s now on tap for 2011 (nearly 50 years after the book first was published).