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The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
Directed by Philip Dunne
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?
Rated NR | Length 97 minutes
Actors
Richard Egan | Dana Wynter | Sidney Blackmer | Marjorie Rambeau | Dorothy Patrick | Rosemarie Stack | Jerry Paris | Ruby Goodwin | DeForest Kelley | Cameron Mitchell | Howard Wendell | Dayton Lummis | Bess Flowers | Bill Walker | Charles Watts | Leoda Richards | Evelyn Rudie | Charles Herbert | Cheryl Callaway