The View from Pompey's Head

The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

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

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?

star 3.5
  • Release Date: 1955-11-04
  • Runtime: 1h 37min
  • Director: Philip Dunne

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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

  • Evelyn Rudie

    Cecily Higgins

  • Charles Herbert

    Pat Page

  • Cheryl Callaway

    Debbie Page

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