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The View from Pompey's Head

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1hr 37min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1955
Director:
Philip Dunne
Starring:
Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell  ...more
Synopsis: Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from Pompey's Head. The film version stars Richard Egan as a New York lawyer who returns to his Southern home town to investigate an embezzlement charge. The victim is an ageing novelist (Sidney Blackmer), whose royalties are mysteriously disappearing; the novelist's wife (Marjorie Rambeau) suspects that her husband is being cheated. But it is the novelist himself who is siphoning ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
The handsomely mounted and awkwardly titled The View from Pompey's Head is a good but uneven little film that tries to straddle two stools and therefore falls between them. On the one hand, Pompey's is a good old-fashioned steamy southern melodrama, with miscegenation threatening to demonstrate just how threadbare are the societal underpinnings of the small town portrayed in the film. On the other, ... Full Review
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Richard Egan
Anson Page
Dana Wynter
Dinah Higgins
Cameron Mitchell
Mickey Higgins
Sidney Blackmer
Garvin Wales
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