The View from Pompey's Head
Summary:
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 no... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Richard Egan - (Anson Page)
Dana Wynter - (Dinah Higgins)
Cameron Mitchell - (Mickey Higgins)
Sidney Blackmer - (Garvin Wales)
Marjorie Rambeau - (Lucy Wales)
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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 underpinnin... Continue >>
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