The View from Pompey's Head
NOT SINCE SCARLETT AND JEZEBEL HAS THE SOUTH PRODUCED SUCH A WOMAN!
1955 · 1h 37m · N/A
Drama
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?
Director and cast
- Philip Dunne Director
- Richard Egan as Anson 'Sonny' Page
- Dana Wynter as Dinah Blackford Higgins
- Sidney Blackmer as Garvin Wales
- Cameron Mitchell Jr. as Michael 'Mickey'
- Marjorie Rambeau as Lucy Devereaux Wales
- Dorothy Patrick as Meg Page
- Rosemarie Stack as Kit Robins Garrick
- Jerry Paris as Ian Garrick
- Rosemary Stack as Kit Robins Garrick
- Ruby Goodwin as Esther
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