The View from Pompey's Head

1955 | 97 minutes | 3.5 ★ (2)

The View from Pompey's Head
  • 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

    04 November 1955

  • DirectingPhilip Dunne
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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