The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
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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 off his earnings, in order to provide for his African-American mother, and to buy her silence regarding his mixed parentage. The wife is apprised of the situation, and agrees to keep mum. With all this going on, it's understandable that few viewers remember the love triangle between Richard Egan, Dana Wynter and Cameron Mitchell which motivates the rest of The View from Pompey's Head. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Richard Egan - Anson Page
- Cameron Mitchell - Mickey Higgins
- Marjorie Rambeau - Lucy Wales
- Ruby Goodwin - Esther
- Howard Wendell - Duncan
- Bess Flowers - Miss Mabry
- Bill Walker - Pullman Porter
- Charles Watts - Police Sergeant
- Charles Herbert - Pat
- Jerry Paris - Ian Garrick
- Dana Wynter - Dinah Higgins
- Sidney Blackmer - Garvin Wales
- Rosemarie Bowe - Kit
- Evelyn Rudie - Cecily
- Dayton Lummis - Barlowe
- Rob Johnson - Bellhop
- Frances Driver - Servant
- Tom Wilson - Trainman
- Jack Mather - Policeman
- DeForest Kelley
- Director(s):
- Philip Dunne
- Writer(s):
- Philip Dunne
- Producer(s):
- Philip Dunne
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- 1955 - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress
