The View from Pompey's Head

The View from Pompey's Head

97 mins | Drama | Nov. 4, 1955

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?

The View from Pompey's Head

97 mins | Drama | Nov. 4, 1955

The View from Pompey's Head
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?
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title The View from Pompey's Head
Directors Philip Dunne
Writers Philip Dunne

Cast

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

Rosemary Stack

as Kit Robins Garrick

Jerry Paris

as Ian Garrick

Ruby Goodwin

as Esther

DeForest Kelley

as Jim - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Cameron Mitchell

as Michael Higgins

Howard Wendell

as John Duncan

Dayton Lummis

as Charles Barlowe

Bess Flowers

as Miss Mabry

Bill Walker

as Train Porter

Charles Watts

as Police Desk Sergeant

Leoda Richards

as Party Guest

Evelyn Rudie

as Cecily Higgins