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...year-old son of a Yonkers market player who lost it all in the last big crash, Granville ran an investment advice service for those who dealt in postage stamps during the 1950s. He moved up to play with the big boys in the '60s, working for E.F. Hutton until his brash unorthodoxy began to clash with the fundamentalist corporate ethic of the firm...
...time difference with the U.S. East Coast. Prices of American stocks nosedived on London, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Even before the market opened in New York, the news of Granville's signal had spread along Wall Street. Said Newton Zinder, a first vice president at E.F. Hutton: "It was like Paul Revere's ride." As stocks tumbled, Granville proudly pronounced his feat "a hole...
Granville has been firing off stock market predictions since 1957, when he joined E.F. Hutton to write its daily market letter. After the brokerage house began heavily editing Granville's highly opinionated copy, he quit and started his own investment service. He emerged from the bear market of the early 1970s with a dubious record. During those years, he kept urging subscribers to buy stocks even though the market continued to sink. Granville conveniently likes to forget that period and says that he has called every major market swing for the past 6½ years...
...effort takes place in one of the wealthiest spots in the country, Lake Forest, Illinois, and the "ordinary" people are the Jarret family: Calvin, the father (Sutherland), a successful tax attorney and ineffectual nice guy; Beth, the mother (Moore), a gracious but icily repressed suburbanite; and Conrad, their son (Hutton), who spent four months in a mental hospital after slashing his wrists. Conrad's troubles unfold slowly: his older brother Buck (mother's favorite) died in a boating accident which Conrad survived. Beth "buried the best of her love" with Buck, and Conrad has been punishing himself ever since. Beth...
...last she neutralizes those dreadful movies she made in the Sixties (Change of Habit, etc.) Sutherland, so erratic he's sometimes brilliant and sometimes awful, is perfect here, understated but with multiple dimensions to his soft-spoken character. They're all perfect, but I have a clear favorite--young Hutton. He's so confused, so pained, intelligent and vulnerable, I ached for him. Since I never read the book, I spent most of the movie tensely hoping nothing bad would come...