The View from Pompey's Head

Nov 4, 1955

1h 37m

★ 3.8

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

Anson 'Sonny' Page

Richard Egan

Dinah Blackford Higgins

Dana Wynter

Garvin Wales

Sidney Blackmer

Lucy Devereaux Wales

Marjorie Rambeau

Meg Page

Dorothy Patrick

Kit Robins Garrick

Rosemarie Stack

Ian Garrick

Jerry Paris

Esther

Ruby Goodwin

Jim - Hotel Clerk

DeForest Kelley

Michael Higgins

Cameron Mitchell

John Duncan

Howard Wendell

Charles Barlowe

Dayton Lummis

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