Another Time, Another Place (1958 film)


Another Time, Another Place is a 1958 British melodrama film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan and Sean Connery. The film is based on Lenore J. Coffee's 1955 novel Weep No More.

Plot

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 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 Trevor is killed in a plane crash, sending Sara into mourning. Her boss, after a few months, convinces her to catch a ship back to New York and work for him. However, before she goes, she goes to Trevor's very scenic seaside hometown in Cornwall and lives for a time with his young widow and son as she works to fashion Trevor's war reporting into a book. She is conflicted about telling Mrs. Trevor the truth about her relationship with Trevor, but finally does so, causing Mrs. Trevor to emotionally break down and order Sara to leave. However, she makes amends with Sara at the station.

Cast

Production

During the film's principal photography in Britain, Connery was confronted by gangster Johnny Stompanato, then-boyfriend of Lana Turner. The jealous man pointed a gun at Connery and warned him to keep away from Turner. Connery answered by grabbing the gun out of Stompanato's hand and twisting his wrist, causing him to run off the set. After Stompanato's death, it was rumored that an LA mobster held Connery responsible, forcing him to go into hiding for a short period.
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.