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, 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 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 or Mark. 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 City 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.

Cast

Production

The film was based on the 1955 Lenore Coffee novel 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."