The View from Pompey's Head
Released: November 4, 1955Runtime: 97 min
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?
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Richard Egan
as Anson 'Sonny' Page
Dana Wynter
as Dinah Blackford Higgins
Cameron Mitchell
as "Mico" Higgins
Sidney Blackmer
as Garvin Wales
Marjorie Rambeau
as Lucy Devereaux Wales
Dorothy Patrick
as Meg Page
Rosemarie Stack
as Kit Robbins Garrick
Jerry Paris
as Ian Garrick
Ruby Goodwin
as Esther
Pamela Stufflebeam
as Julia Higgins
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