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Lana Turner and Barry Sullivan are the only Americans in this British production where a name Hollywood star got the top billing to insure a good foreign market. In this case Turner also produced Another Time, Another Place so she dictated the billing in any event.
This film also features Sean Connery as a Richard Dimbleby type radio broadcaster in a film set right at the end of World War II. Turner has a fling with Connery who breaks it off and confesses he's got a wife and child back in a village in Cornwall from where he comes. After that Connery killed in a plane crash going to report on the surrender of Kesselring's army in Italy.
So the brokenhearted Turner goes to said village and meets up with wife Glynis Johns and son Martin Stephens.
Some might find that romantic. Personally I found that whole thing just ghoulish. If Turner had any decency she would have taken the advice of her boss Barry Sullivan and returned to the states. In the end she does. Sullivan has little to do but wait for Turner to come to her senses and finally win her.
Not one of Lana's best. Connery is well cast though.
score 3/10
bkoganbing 14 January 2017
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3619171/ |
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13-3-2021 18:06:10
