Connery had a major role in the
melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair opposite
Lana Turner and
Barry Sullivan. During filming, star Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend,
Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery.
[45] Connery and Turner had attended
West End shows and London restaurants together.
[46] Stompanato stormed onto the film set and pointed a gun at Connery, only to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back. Stompanato was banned from the set.
[47] Two
Scotland Yard detectives advised Stompanato to leave and escorted him to the airport, where he boarded a plane back to the US.
[48] Connery later recounted that he had to lie low for a while after receiving threats from men linked to Stompanato's boss,
Mickey Cohen.
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