Movie: The View from Pompey's Head

Top 10 Billed Cast

Richard Egan
Richard Egan

Anson 'Sonny' Page

Dana Wynter
Dana Wynter

Dinah Blackford Higgins

Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer

Garvin Wales

Marjorie Rambeau
Marjorie Rambeau

Lucy Devereaux Wales

Dorothy Patrick
Dorothy Patrick

Meg Page

Rosemarie Stack
Rosemarie Stack

Kit Robins Garrick

Jerry Paris
Jerry Paris

Ian Garrick

Ruby Goodwin
Ruby Goodwin

Esther

DeForest Kelley
DeForest Kelley

Jim - Hotel Clerk

Cameron Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell

Michael Higgins

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  • 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?

  • Release Date

    1955-11-04

  • Average

    2.75

  • Rating:

    1.4 starts
  • Tagline

    NOT SINCE SCARLETT AND JEZEBEL HAS THE SOUTH PRODUCED SUCH A WOMAN!

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  • Languages:

    English
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