The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

11/04/1955 (US) • 1h 37m

Drama

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?

Top Billed Cast

Richard Egan

Anson 'Sonny' Page

Dana Wynter

Dinah Blackford Higgins

Sidney Blackmer

Garvin Wales

Marjorie Rambeau

Lucy Devereaux Wales

Rosemarie Stack

Kit Robins Garrick

Jerry Paris

Ian Garrick

DeForest Kelley

Jim - Hotel Clerk


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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Keywords

lawyer

writer

class prejudice

southern

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