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The View from Pompey's Head

The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

1h 37m | PG-13

⭐ 3.5 / 10

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?

Director: Philip Dunne

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

Richard Egan

Richard Egan

as Anson 'Sonny' Page

Dana Wynter

Dana Wynter

as Dinah Blackford Higgins

Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

as Garvin Wales

Marjorie Rambeau

Marjorie Rambeau

as Lucy Devereaux Wales

Dorothy Patrick

Dorothy Patrick

as Meg Page

Rosemarie Stack

Rosemarie Stack

as Kit Robins Garrick