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Directed by Lewis Allen, who later worked on TV shows like The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible and Little House on the Prairie, this is a tragic wartime melodrama that had a future superstar just starting out up against a current female superstar who had come over to England to make this film. It does feel long, but it manages to have a good story. 1945, and BBC reporter Mark Trevor (Sean Connery) is covering the war in London, but he's also seeing American newspaper correspondent Sara Scott (Lana Turner). It ends with Sara being conflicted on whether to go with Mark, or stay with her current boyfriend Carter Reynolds (Barry Sullivan), who owns the newspaper she works at. She makes her mind up, and decides to go with Mark, who is assigned to go to Paris to cover the war, but he and several other reporters are killed when their plane crashes. Distraught, Sara goes to the village in Cornwall where Mark lives, and she ends up at the seaside cottage where he lived. By chance, she's taken in by Mark's widow Kay (Glynis Johns), who doesn't know that Mark had an affair while the war was on. It's a tragic love story, but Turner gives a good performance and the locations used are lovely, and it's got an interesting cast as well, Sid James appears as an American reporter, while Raymond Burr makes a quick cameo and so does John Le Mesurier.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/05/23
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"Another Time, Another Place was another surprise enjoyment for me, after Connery's character is killed off twenty minutes in I felt it would be all downhill from there, but the progression of the story proved interesting to say the least as Lana Turner's character tries to find closure in her affair with Mark by becoming friends with his family."
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02/25/23
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Another time, another place but the same old Lana! Routine soaper with a superior cast. Glynis Johns is the best thing in the movie
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02/27/23
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A nice little melodrama in its way, although Lana Turner feels oddly out of place in an otherwise British cast. Mostly, it's fun to watch a young Sean Connery in one of his first big film roles. And then there's that creepy little boy from "The Innocents," too...
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/26/23
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(DVD) (First Viewing, 1st Allen film)
With apologies to any Lana Turner groupies out there, the main draw to ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE is, no doubt, the appearance of young Scottish stud Sean Connery. Four years before he would burst to international attention and become one's of cinema's greatest heartthrobs as James Bond, he was playing second fiddle to Lana Turner in the role as the expendable young man. Just goes to show that everyone's got to start somewhere.
But what's [i]really[/i] interesting is that the film is at its weakest during the first 35 minutes, when Connery's character plays a central role. It's not that his famous voice lacks that cocky edge that would make him an icon, or that he's rather stiff in a one-note role-- it's just that he functions merely as a plot contrivance meant to get the story to its more interesting later parts. Turner and Connery spend the first third of the film caught in each other's arms, hurtling embarrassingly florid musings on life and love at each other.
It's not until Turner comes into contact with Connery's devoted young wife back at home that things really get interesting. Played by Glynis Johns, the underrated British actress best known as suffragette crusader Winifred Banks in MARY POPPINS, she shines as the plain, hard-working woman who was left behind to protect her son from the bomb raids of London, and she promptly steals the film from both Turner and Connery. She has a warmth and vulnerability that stands in stark contrast to Turner and Connery's movie star posing, pushing the rather contrived story into rather unexpected emotional territory that the film only benefits from. It's a shame that Johns never became a bigger star-- but the film proves once again that she always managed to make a vivid impression on audiences, even when relegated to supporting roles.
ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE catches Sean Connery right before superstardom and Lana Turner between her performances in two of her greatest films, the underappreciated [URL=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=29715&entryid=2319&view=public]PEYTON PLACE [/URL] (my first review in this journal!) and Douglas Sirk's remake of [URL=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=29715&entryid=94454&view=public]IMITATION OF LIFE[/URL]. But the real reason to watch this film is to catch a glimpse of Glynis Johns-- a star who should have been.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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