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Programme Information

King Vidor directs Gary Cooper in this ambitious screen version of Ayn Rand's novel as a brilliant but uncompromising young architect who takes drastic action when his plans for a Utopian city are compromised.

Keywords:

Drama, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1949) (USA) (4 Star)

Cast:

Gary Cooper	.... Howard Roark
Patricia Neal	.... Dominique Francon
Raymond Massey	.... Gail Wynand
Kent Smith	.... Peter Keating
Robert Douglas	.... Ellsworth Toohey
Henry Hull	.... Henry Cameron

Supporting Cast:

Ray Collins	.... Roger Enright
Moroni Olsen	.... Chairman
Jerome Cowan	.... Alvah Scarret

Directors:

King Vidor

Writers:

Ayn Rand