The View from Pompey's Head
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?
- Year: 1955
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Keyword: lawyer, writer, class prejudice, southern
- Director: Philip Dunne
- Cast: Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Sidney Blackmer, Marjorie Rambeau, Dorothy Patrick, Rosemarie Stack
