The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

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Release Date: 1955

Duration: 97min

Category: Drama

Cast: Elmer Bernstein, Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, DeForest Kelley, Sidney Blackmer, Philip Dunne, Jerry Paris, Walter Scott, Bess Flowers, Lionel Newman, Charles LeMaire, Marjorie Rambeau, Bill Walker, Joe MacDonald, Leland Fuller, Lyle Wheeler

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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... more

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 less