The View from Pompey's Head

November. 04,1955 NR

Rating：

6.3

Genre：

Drama

Keywords：

Lawyer Writer Southern

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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?

Richard Egan as Anson 'Sonny' Page

Dana Wynter as Dinah Blackford Higgins

Sidney Blackmer as Garvin Wales

Marjorie Rambeau as Lucy Devereaux Wales

Dorothy Patrick as Meg Page

Rosemarie Stack as Kit Robins Garrick

Jerry Paris as Ian Garrick

Ruby Goodwin as Esther

DeForest Kelley as Jim - Hotel Clerk

Cameron Mitchell as Michael Higgins

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Reviews

VeteranLight

1955/11/04

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Moustroll

1955/11/05

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Murphy Howard

1955/11/06

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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Fatma Suarez

1955/11/07

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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