Yes! Yes! Yes! "The Fountainhead" coming on TCM!

[Floogeldy]

At about 11:15, CDST.

Howard Roark and that babe that was in "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

:)

[WCGreen]

1. Possibly one of the worst movies ever made....

But I have to watch...

I am compelled to watch....

Such a mis cast cast you have never seen....

Gary Cooper about 15 years to old....

Partica Neal, about 10 years too young....

And the rest,,,,,,

And the script........

[NMMNG]

2. I have the videotape

But I'll still watch it when it comes on. I agree it wasn't very well made, but the same could be said of many movies.

[WCGreen]

5. I have to watch it.......

I can;t stop myself.....

I can recite lines....

[NMMNG]

7. It's just like when there was talk of them making "Atlas Shrugged"

I knew they'd mess it up, but I also knew I'd see it anyway.

[WCGreen]

10. They are going to make Atlas Shrugged.....

Man, that would be somethin'

Maybe Mel Gibson could direct it.....

[NMMNG]

17. Way back four or five years ago one of the cable networks was going to

make a mini-series out of it but it never came to fruition. Who knows if it will ever happen.

[Floogeldy]

6. Eggzackly!

Almost.

;)

Art, goddamnit!

[Ladyhawk]

13. My brother loves that movie. He's an Ayn Rand cultist. :D n/t

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

15. She hated the movie though

I watched a documentary on her, which ended being a great deal of propaganda, and she was not happy with the outcome of this particular adaptation.

[mitchum]

3. Trashy high camp and Patricia Neal looks great

[In_The_Wind]

4. movie time

[Tom Kitten]

8. it is totally trashy...

but strangely compelling at the same time...btw the babe is Patricia Neal...
Basically a fucked up story with some fine acting by some well known stars about a ridiculous philosophy I don't give a shit about...in a nutshell...

[NMMNG]

9. Here we go

:popcorn: :beer:

[readermostly]

11. OK, everyone's descriptions have me intrigued, especially the bad movie

part!! I do like Gary Cooper, though, and since it's Friday night and I can sleep late tomorrow, I decided to check it out!

[WCGreen]

18. Not Gary Coopers best movie...

My favorite of his is Srgt York.....

[WCGreen]

12. Oh my god... The dialoge is horendous.....

Just compromise, Mr. Rourk, Go with the middle of the road. The people will like it.

[Floogeldy]

14. It is very direct.

Spoon-fed, as it were.

But that does not necessarily diminish the value of the story. :)

[WCGreen]

16. I know.. Mrs. WCGreen kicked me out of the bedroom

and told me if I wanted to watch that shit I had to go into the other room...

It's not the same when no one else is there to enjoy it with you....

[moof]

19. Spoon-fed there's an understatement, in the courtroom scene

when Gary has to give a long speech on the stand, they thought they would never get it filmed because Cooper could not remember more than two or three lines of dialogue at a time.

[Floogeldy]

20. Thanks for the education.

I never knew that Gary Cooper was a complete fucking moron, before.

[moof]

24. no, he was just no good at memorizing very many lines at a time

[Doctor_J]

22. Yes, there was alot of compression to get that book

to a 115-min film. And I thought Roarke was a GREAT character.

"I do not build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

Kent Smith's Peter Keating was really weasley too. A George Bush for his time.

[WCGreen]

23. He was always weasley.......

In every movie I ever saw him in....

[Doctor_J]

21. I love that movie

hated the book. Roarke was really toned down in the film. The whole story was, actually. I just love Coop and Patricia Neal, and he did that character so well.

Side note - Coop ran off with Neal after they met making this picture. He spent 5 years with her and then returned to his family.