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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The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

1h 37m · 11/4/1955

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

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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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Cast
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Richard Egan

Anson 'Sonny' Page
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Dana Wynter

Dinah Blackford Higgins
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Cameron Mitchell

Michael "Mickey"
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Sidney Blackmer

Garvin Wales
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Marjorie Rambeau

Lucy Devereaux Wales
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Dorothy Patrick

Meg Page
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Rosemarie Stack

Kit Robbins Garrick
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Jerry Paris

Ian Garrick
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Ruby Goodwin

Esther
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Pamela Stufflebeam

Julia Higgins
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Evelyn Rudie

Cecily Higgins
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Howard Wendell

John Duncan
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Dayton Lummis

Charles Barlowe
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Charles Andrews

Manservant
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Cheryl Callaway

Debbie Page
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George Chester

Hotel Waiter
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Frances Curry

Servant
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Wade Dumas

Groom
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Bess Flowers

Miss Mabry - Duncan's Secretary
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Kenneth Gibson

Party Guest
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Otis Greene

Hotel Servant
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Lesley Harrison

Miss Harmon
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Charles Herbert

Pat Page
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Wilma Jacobs

Betty-Jo Ann
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Bobby Johnson

Bellhop
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DeForest Kelley

Jim Foster - Hotel Clerk
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Anna Mabry

Maid
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Jack Mather

Policeman
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Florence Mitchell

Garrick's Secretary
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Ken Osborne

Brother
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Bill Walker

Pullman Porter
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Charles Watts

Police Sergeant
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Tom Wilson

Trainman
Crew
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Philip Dunne

Director
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Hamilton Basso

Writer
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Philip Dunne

Writer
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