DVD News: finally...THE FOUNTAINHEAD

The 1949 movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead has never been released on DVD...until now. Warner has just announced a November 7 release date, and I couldn't be happier. Granted, there are plenty of problems with King Vidor's film. It tries to stuff a mammoth story into less than two hours. Gary Cooper manages to play Howard Roark even stuffier than Rand wrote him. And, not surprisingly, the movie's got a lot of windy speeches to sit through. But I'm still genuinely fond of this old classic, and Patricia Neal was the perfect Dominique Francon. Hubba hubba!