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The View from Pompey's Head

The View from Pompey's Head

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 4, 1955

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Drama

User Score

35%

Original Title

The View from Pompey's Head

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Director

Philip Dunne

Description

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?