The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
• November 4th, 1955 • 1h 37min
Drama
Overview
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?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Forgettable Life of Liam White
Released on: 2021-11-01
Drama
Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character los...
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Released on:
Drama
Julia Reyes, the precocious and strong-willed teenage daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrant...
Loitering with Intent
Released on: 2014-04-18
Comedy, Drama
Fledgling screenwriters retreat to a quiet country manor to work on their script, but a constellatio...
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Released on: 1976-06-16
Drama, TV Movie
The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic an...
The Privileged
Released on: 2013-09-08
Thriller, Drama
Richard Hunter, a promising young lawyer at a prestigious firm, has the perfect future mapped out. H...
She Loves Me Not
Released on: 2013-06-09
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A reclusive novelist struggles to find romance and meaning in his life despite disastrous and comedi...
Chasing Yesterday
Released on: 1935-05-03
Romance, Drama
An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daught...
Tell Me No Secrets
Released on: 1997-01-20
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
Jess Koster is a young attorney in Los Angeles, who is being stalked by the serial killer she is pro...
The Law
Released on: 1974-10-22
Drama, TV Movie
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people invol...
Irish Eyes
Released on: 2004-07-22
Action, Drama, Crime
"Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigra...
Winter Sleep
Released on: 2014-06-13
Drama
Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating t...
Tennessee Queer
Released on: 2014-03-14
Comedy, Drama
Religion, politics and gay pride clash in a small Tennessee town when out, proud and living in New Y...
Tove
Released on: 2020-10-02
Drama
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tov...
Let Them All Talk
Released on: 2020-12-10
Comedy, Drama
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her ...
A Most Violent Year
Released on: 2014-12-31
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent yea...
The Family Secret
Released on: 1951-10-21
Crime, Drama
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murde...
The Attorney
Released on: 2013-12-18
History, Drama
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and t...
The Blind Goddess
Released on: 1948-09-14
Drama
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, H...
Attorney for the Defense
Released on: 1932-05-21
Drama
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent ma...