The View from Pompey's Head
- Released on
- Runtime
- 97 mins
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?
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?
Cast
- 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
Director
- Philip Dunne
Producers
- Philip Dunne
