

The View from Pompey's Head
DirectorPhilip Dunne
“NOT SINCE SCARLETT AND JEZEBEL HAS THE SOUTH PRODUCED SUCH A WOMAN!”
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

Richard Egan
Anson 'Sonny' Page

Dana Wynter
Dinah Blackford Higgins

Sidney Blackmer
Garvin Wales

Marjorie Rambeau
Lucy Devereaux Wales

Dorothy Patrick
Meg Page

Rosemarie Stack
Kit Robins Garrick

Jerry Paris
Ian Garrick

Ruby Goodwin
Esther

DeForest Kelley
Jim - Hotel Clerk

Cameron Mitchell
Michael Higgins

Howard Wendell
John Duncan

Dayton Lummis
Charles Barlowe
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