02 Mar 2018
Pickings
When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they're soon confronted with the wrath of its owner - a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past.
The View from Pompey's Head
NOT SINCE SCARLETT AND JEZEBEL HAS THE SOUTH PRODUCED SUCH A WOMAN!
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?
Top Billed Cast
Richard Egan Anson 'Sonny' Page
Dana Wynter Dinah Blackford Higgins
Sidney Blackmer Garvin Wales
Marjorie Rambeau Lucy Devereaux Wales
Dorothy Patrick Meg Page
Rosemarie Stack Kit Robins Garrick
Jerry Paris Ian Garrick
Ruby Goodwin Esther
DeForest Kelley Jim - Hotel Clerk
Cameron Mitchell Michael Higgins
Howard Wendell John Duncan
Dayton Lummis Charles Barlowe
Bess Flowers Miss Mabry
Bill Walker Train Porter
Charles Watts Police Desk Sergeant
Leoda Richards Party Guest
Evelyn Rudie Cecily Higgins
Charles Herbert Pat Page
Cheryl Callaway Debbie Page
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