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SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. For connoisseurs of the actor's art: this muscular adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's half-angry, half-funny novel of working-class life in England features Albert Finney, 24, the most talented young actor in the English-speaking world, as a sly young dog who growls at his fate and howls...
Wheat, for example, gets high supports, and U.S. wheat farmers are clearly enjoying life. In wheat-growing Finney County, Kans., Farmer Frank Oldweiler got perfect growing weather through the summer; in July he harvested one of his best crops ever from his 1,200 acres. With the profit, Oldweiler has air-conditioned his home, bought a hundred head of cattle, increased his life insurance, and scheduled a two-week family vacation in California instead of the usual Christmas holiday in Wichita...
...Braine's novel, thanks to the acting of Simone Signoret and Lawrence Harvey. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is, if anything better. It has the advantage of superb screenplay by young Alan Sillitoe ("The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner") and near perfect execution of the lead by Albert Finney, an actor hailed by some as the next Olivier. See them both...
...horse, they prowled the cluster of well-maintained barns, while grooms obligingly paraded the 267 sleek yearlings for inspection. Most drew only a cursory glance. But others-the offspring of such favored sires as Hyperion, Polynesian and Nantallah-attracted knots of peering, prodding admirers. They were looking, explained Humphrey Finney, whose firm conducts the sale on a 5% commission, "for real vigor, for an impression of smartness and alertness, for the heart and the will...
...Horseflesh. Bringing buyer and seller together is the job of white-haired Humphrey Finney, 58. who rules Fasig-Tipton Co., an $8,500,000-a-year horse-trading enterprise that extends from Saratoga to stud farms in England. France, Australia and South America. After 24 years as an auctioneer and "pitchman." British-born Finney knows as much as any man about the cash value of good horseflesh-and about the strange habits of the bidder. Finney scornfully tolerates parvenus whose extravagantly high offers make no horse sense, pointedly admonishes bidders when he thinks the offers...