Another Time, Another Place (1958 film)

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Another Time, Another Place (1958)

Another Time, Another Place is a 1958 British melodrama directed by Lewis Allen. It stars Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery, Sidney James and Terence Longdon. The screenplay by Stanley Mann is based on Lenore Coffee’s 1955 novel Weep No More.

Plot
American reporter Sara Scott is in London during the last year of World War II and begins an affair with British reporter Mark Trevor. She is torn between marrying her rich American boss Carter Reynolds or Mark. She chooses Mark, only to learn he is married with a son. They separate briefly, then decide to stay together and work out their problems. As the war ends, Mark dies in a plane crash. Sara mourns and spends a few months in a mental sanatorium. Afterward, Carter convinces her to return to New York to work for him. Before leaving, she visits Cornwall, Mark’s seaside hometown, with his young widow Kay and son, while she works on turning Mark’s war reporting into a book. She struggles with whether to tell Kay the truth about her relationship with Mark. She eventually does, Kay breaks down and orders Sara to leave, but they later make amends at the train station.

Production notes
The film was shot in Britain, with location work in Polperro, a fishing village in Cornwall. In the film, the Cornwall village is called St Giles; the railway station seen is actually Looe. The final scene shows Sara’s train leaving that station, which still exists but has changed since the 1950s.

Sean Connery was cast as Mark Trevor by Lana Turner. During filming, an on-set incident occurred involving Turner’s former boyfriend Johnny Stompanato, who allegedly confronted Connery with a gun. Connery reportedly disarmed him. After Stompanato’s death, rumors circulated about Connery, though he continued his career.