Another Time, Another Place

1958
A
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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Sean Connery and Lana Turner in Another Time, Another Place (1958)

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An American war correspondent falls in love with a BBC reporter, but their relationship seems doomed from the start.An American war correspondent falls in love with a BBC reporter, but their relationship seems doomed from the start.An American war correspondent falls in love with a BBC reporter, but their relationship seems doomed from the start.

Director
- Lewis Allen
Writers
- Stanley Mann
- Lenore J. Coffee
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

932

YOUR RATING

Director
- Lewis Allen
Writers
- Stanley Mann
- Lenore J. Coffee
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Featured review

6/10

Weep No More

Set in Cornwall (not that you'd know from the accents, least of all Connery's) in 1945 (not that you'd know from Lana Turner's chic fifties wardrobe). The title is apt, as it belongs to a very specific moment in 1957 when Sid James was still playing Americans, Lana's film career was simply treading water (just before the publicity resulting from the Stompanato scandal revived it again) and Sean Connery - suffering yet another false start - cost next to nothing. Likewise it completely lacks the glossy high contrast colour photography by Russell Metty and mellow piano music by Frank Skinner (rather than the noisy score here by Douglas Gamley) that became a hallmark of her vehicles for Ross Hunter.

Turner's penchant for Bad Boys showed both in her offscreen liason with Johnny Stompanato and her onscreen one with a Connery still sporting his original bushy eyebrows. But it's really about Lana's relationship with Connery's wife Glynis Johns.

Trivia
During the shooting of the movie in England, Sir Sean Connery was confronted by Johnny Stompanato, an ex-marine turned mob enforcer, who was in an abusive relationship with Lana Turner. At the time, Connery and Turner got along very well, so much that when Stompanato found out about it, he suspected that they were having an affair. Stompanato, who was notorious for his jealousy and violent tendencies, then stormed to the set and threatened Connery with a gun. But he quickly disarmed Stompanato and forced him from the set. Following that incident, Stompanato was deported by Scotland Yard. Shortly after he arrived in the USA, he met his end at the hands of Turner's teenage daughter Cheryl, who fatally stabbed him in self-defence while he was beating her mother. Connery, who was filming Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) at the time of the latter incident, behaved very cautiously when he walked the streets of Los Angeles, because it was rumoured that a mobster made him responsible for Stompanatos death. That caused him to avoid the USA for several years.

Goofs
The mink coat repeatedly worn by war correspondent Lana Turner is hardly the thing a person of her financial means would have been able to afford and is laughingly out of place in wartime London, and even if she did own it, would hardly have been so blatantly and casually displayed among her lesser paid co-workers, but none of them seem to notice or care.