The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

3.8/10 • 97 min • Drama

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?

Cast

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

Bess Flowers

Miss Mabry

Bill Walker

Train Porter

Charles Watts

Police Desk Sergeant

Leoda Richards

Party Guest

Charles Herbert

Pat Page

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