Another Time, Another Place | |
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Directed by | Lewis Allen |
Written by | Stanley Mann |
Based on | Weep No More by Lenore J. Coffee |
Produced by | Joe Kaufmann |
Starring | Lana Turner Barry Sullivan Glynis Johns Sean Connery |
Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
Edited by | Geoffrey Foot |
Music by | Douglas Gamley |
Production companies | Lanturn Productions Kaydor Productions Ltd. |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Another Time, Another Place is a 1958 British melodrama film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan and Sean Connery. [1] It was written by Stanley Mann based on Lenore J. Coffee's 1955 novel Weep No More.
An American reporter, Sara Scott is working in London during the last year of the Second World War and begins an affair with a British reporter named Mark Trevor). Sara is conflicted on whether to marry her rich American boss Carter Reynolds (Sullivan) or the charming young reporter she is having an affair with. Finally, she chooses Mark, only to find that he is married and has a son back in his hometown. The two separate shortly thereafter, then decide to stay together and work out their problems.
As the war in Europe is ending, Mark is killed in a plane crash, sending Sara into mourning and into a mental sanatorium for a few months. After her release, Carter convinces her to catch a ship back to New York and work for him. However, before her departure, she goes to Trevor's very scenic seaside hometown in Cornwall and lives for a time with his young widow Kay and son as she works to fashion Mark's war reporting into a book. She is conflicted about telling Kay the truth about her relationship with Mark, but finally does so, causing Kay to emotionally break down and order Sara to leave. However, she makes amends with Sara at the station.
Actor | Role |
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Lana Turner | Sara Scott |
Barry Sullivan | Carter Reynolds |
Glynis Johns | Kay Trevor |
Sean Connery | Mark Trevor |
Terence Longdon | Alan Thompson |
Sid James | Jake Klein |
Martin Stephens | Brian Trevor |
Doris Hare | Mrs. Bunker |
Julian Somers | Hotel Manager |
John Le Mesurier | Doctor Aldridge |
Cameron Hall | Alfy |
Robin Bailey | Captain Barnes |
Jane Welsh | Jonesh |
The film was based on a novel by Lenore Coffee called Weep No More. Coffee said "It was about a clever woman columnist— called “Sara Scott Says”—and they got that sexpot Lana Turner to play the lead in the movie. It stunk. It was just dreadful." [2]
Location filming in the fishing village in Cornwall that Lana Turner's character visits, named St Giles in the film, was carried out at Polperro. She travels by train and the station she arrives at, also called St Giles in the film, is actually Looe railway station. The final scene of the film is of her train leaving the same station, which still exists but has been much altered since the 1950s. [3] Connery was selected by Turner to play the role of Mark Trevor. [4]
During the film's principal photography in Britain, Connery was confronted on-set by gangster Johnny Stompanato, then-boyfriend of Lana Turner, who suspected the actor was having an affair with Turner. Stompanato pointed a gun at Connery and warned him to keep away from Turner. Connery responded by grabbing the gun out of Stompanato's hand and twisting his wrist, causing him to run off the set. [5] [6]
After Stompanato's death, it was rumoured that a Los Angeles mobster held Connery responsible, causing Connery (who was then in Los Angeles to make Darby O'Gill And The Little People (1959) for Walt Disney) to look over his shoulder nervously for a time. [7]
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