Another Time, Another Place
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lewis Allen
Lana Turner
Barry Sullivan
Glynis Johns
Sean Connery
Terrence Longdon
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In London, 1945, BBC radio correspondent Mark Trevor broadcasts to his listeners the details surrounding the disarmament of an unexploded German V-2 rocket. He is soon joined in the field by Sara Scott, a foreign correspondent for The New York Standard . The two journalists have been lovers for three weeks, and although Sara declares her undying love for him, Mark is hesitant to state his true affections for her. Later, in her hotel room, Mark tells Sara how he grew up in the small English village of St. Giles and joined the BBC prior to the outbreak of World War II, but Sara points out that eleven years are missing from his life story. After Mark finally professes his love, Sara confesses that she is engaged to her boss, American newspaper publisher Carter Reynolds. Before she can break her engagement, however, Mark admits that he is married. Carter then arrives in London on his way to Paris, and quickly recognizes the sudden alienation of Sara's affections. He offers to take her with him to Paris or back to New York, but the heartbroken Sara insists on staying in London until she can settle her personal life. Following the German army's surrender in Italy, Mark is transferred to Paris, but before he leaves, he and Sara have one final meeting at which they proclaim their eternal love to each other. The next morning, Carter rushes to be with Sara before the BBC announces Mark's death, as he was just killed in an airplane crash. Sara then suffers a nervous breakdown and is institutionalized in a nursing home for six weeks. With the war now over, Carter offers to send Sara home on an ocean cruise following her convalescence, but she decides takes a train to St. Giles before setting sail for America. Arriving in the seaside town, Sara is unable to find any accommodations, as the post-war surge in tourism has filled all the local inns, but she meets Mark's young son Brian by chance and is soon invited to dinner by her dead lover's unsuspecting widow Kay. Though Kay offers her lodgings for the night, the grief-stricken Sara cannot stand being surrounded by Mark's things and bolts from the home. The next morning, Sara is found on the docks unconscious and is carried back to Kay's house, where she is ordered to rest by the local physician. Kay then convinces Sara to stay on in St. Giles and write a book about Mark, still unaware that Sara was her husband's mistress. Later, Sara is shocked to see Alan Thompson, Mark's childhood friend and co-worker, who somehow survived the plane crash that took her lover's life. Though he promises to keep her secret, Alan asks Sara to leave St. Giles before Kay learns the truth about her relationship with Mark. Meanwhile, back in New York, Carter is informed by Dr. Aldridge, Sara's physician at the nursing home, of her current whereabouts, and he rushes to St. Giles in hopes of bringing Sara home. Upon their first meeting, Carter and Alan quickly realize that they are in similar positions, as they both love women who are in love with the same dead man. Following an evening at the cinema, Kay questions Alan about her husband's final weeks, and she soon surmises that Mark was having an affair. Learning this, Sara confesses all to Kay, but tells the widow that Mark had ended their affair and was planning to return to his wife and child. The next morning, Kay, relieved, rushes to the train station to say goodbye to a thankful Sara, who then promises to send Brian a photograph from the top of the Empire State building.
Director
Lewis Allen
Cast
Lana Turner
Barry Sullivan
Glynis Johns
Sean Connery
Terrence Longdon
Sidney James
Martin Stephens
Doris Hare
Julian Somers
John Lemesurier
Cameron Hall
Jane Welsh
Robin Bailey
Bill Fraser
Crew
Lewis Allen
Del Armstrong
Smedley Aston
Jim Bawden
Ann Box
Rene Dupont
Ray Evans
Geoffrey Foot
Stuart Freeborn
Douglas Gamley
Jack Hildyard
Leslie Hodgson
Joseph Kaufman
Jay Livingston
Stanley Mann
Muir Mathieson
Laura Nightingale
J. B. Smith
James Swarbrick
Lynda Swarbrick
Gerry Turner
Lee Turner
John F. Workman
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
During the shooting of the movie in England, Sean Connery was confronted by a gun-waving Johnny Stompanato, hoodlum boyfriend of Lana Turner. The jealous hood warned Connery to keep away from Lana. Connery answered by decking Johnny. Shortly thereafter, back in the U.S., Stompanato met his end at the hands of the frightened, butcher-knife-wielding teenage daughter of Lana Turner, Cheryl Crane.
Notes
The title of Lenore Coffee's novel Weep No More was changed to Another Time, Another Place, when it was published in the United States (New York, 1956). Although the film's opening credits imply that the picture marked actor Sean Connery's debut, he had portrayed roles in several earlier films, including his first, the 1954 British release Lilacs in Spring (released in the U.S. as Let's Make Up.) Another Time, Another Place did mark, however, Connery's first featured role in an American film. Paramount press materials claim that producer Joseph Kaufman and star Lana Turner selected Connery for the role of "Mark Trevor" after auditioning over 300 English actors in London.
Another Time, Another Place was the initial production of Lanturn Productions, a film company owned by Turner. According to Motion Picture Daily, portions of the film were shot on location in London and the Cornwall region of England. Paramount press materials state that scenes set in "St. Giles" were shot in the Cornwall fishing village of Looe.
According to Hollywood Reporter news items, Another Time, Another Place originally was set to be released in September 1958, but Paramount chose to rush the recently completed film into theaters in May 1958 in an attempt to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the death of Turner's lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato. On Good Friday, April 4, 1958, Stompanato was found dead in Turner's Beverly Hills mansion, stabbed to death with a butcher knife. Turner's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane, was charged with the murder, and following one of the most highly publicized trials in U.S. history, the death was ruled a justifiable homicide. According to modern sources, gangster Mickey Cohen, angered at being forced to pay Stompanato's burial costs, gave twelve love letters written by Turner to Stompanato during the filming of Another Time, Another Place to an editor of Los Angeles Herald Express, and their publication during the trial made front-page news across the country.
Though it was rumoured in Hollywood for years that Turner had killed Stompanato herself, the actress's career suffered no ill effects from the scandal and her first picture following the murder, the 1959 Universal release Imitation of Life (see below), was one of the most critically and financially successful films of her career. In her autobiography and all later interviews, Cheryl Crane denied any involvement by her mother in the death, stating that she, herself, had accidentally stabbed Stompanato after hearing him threaten her mother during an argument, precisely as she had testified during her trial thirty years earlier.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video October 25, 1990
Released in United States on Video September 25, 1990
Released in United States Spring May 1958
Remake of "Another Time, Another Place" (1958) directed by Lewis Allen.
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Released in United States Spring May 1958
Released in United States on Video September 25, 1990
Released in United States on Video October 25, 1990
