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The View from Pompey's Head
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The View from Pompey's Head

Nov 4, 1955
1h 37m
★ 2.8

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

Overview

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?

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Richard Egan

Anson 'Sonny' Page

Richard Egan

Dana Wynter

Dinah Blackford Higgins

Dana Wynter

Sidney Blackmer

Garvin Wales

Sidney Blackmer

Marjorie Rambeau

Lucy Devereaux Wales

Marjorie Rambeau

Dorothy Patrick

Meg Page

Dorothy Patrick

Rosemarie Stack

Kit Robins Garrick

Rosemarie Stack

Jerry Paris

Ian Garrick

Jerry Paris

Ruby Goodwin

Esther

Ruby Goodwin

DeForest Kelley

Jim - Hotel Clerk

DeForest Kelley

Cameron Mitchell

Michael Higgins

Cameron Mitchell

Howard Wendell

John Duncan

Howard Wendell

Dayton Lummis

Charles Barlowe

Dayton Lummis

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