There is no question that Ayn Rand's words didn't translate perfectly to film. And there are some notable flaws. For example the man playing Peter Keating looks way too young to have been a schoolmate with Gary Cooper's Roark. And also there is the fact that Cooper is not a "carrot top" which is something which Rand stresses in the novel. Nonetheless this is a very interesting film attempt at a script which stresses individual rights, and must have seemed out of place back in the late '40's when made, and especially by what was probably the most left wing of all the movie studios, Warner Brothers. I have always felt that Atlas Shrugged was the stronger of Rand's 2 most famous novels and hopefully we will get to see "Who Is John Galt" before long.
Review of The Fountainhead
