The View from Pompey's Head

The View from Pompey's Head

NOT SINCE SCARLETT AND JEZEBEL HAS THE SOUTH PRODUCED SUCH A WOMAN!

NR 1955 · 97 min · ★ 3.8 · Drama

Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?

Directed by Philip Dunne · Written by Philip Dunne

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Richard Egan Anson 'Sonny' Page
Dana Wynter Dinah Blackford Higgins
Sidney Blackmer Garvin Wales
Marjorie Rambeau Lucy Devereaux Wales
Dorothy Patrick Meg Page
Rosemarie Stack Kit Robins Garrick
Jerry Paris Ian Garrick
Ruby Goodwin Esther
DeForest Kelley Jim - Hotel Clerk
Cameron Mitchell Michael Higgins
Howard Wendell John Duncan
Dayton Lummis Charles Barlowe

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