Mark Trevor (Sean Connery) is a BBC reporter who has fallen in love with a woman reporter from the "New York Standard," a major American newspaper. The reporter, Sara Scott (Lana Turner), has previously promised to marry her boss, Carter Reynolds (Barry Sullivan), but now believes she wants to marry Mark. Mark finally confesses he has a wife and son in St. Giles, a small village in Cornwall. The day after he confesses, he flies to Paris to cover the surrender of Italy and is killed in a plane crash.
Sara is devastated. Carter Reynolds orders her to return to America, but just before taking her ship home, she visits St. Giles to see where Mark lived. She accidentally bumps into Mark's son, Brian (Martin Stephens), and then Mark's wife, Kay (Glynis Johns). She is overwhelmed by emotion and becomes ill, and stays with Brian and Kay for a time to recover. They grow quite fond of each other until Kay learns that her husband had met a woman in London, which explained why he stopped writing home. Sara finally confesses that she is the "other woman", but that Mark had left her in order to return to his family. This is ambiguous since just before Mark departed for Paris he and Sara had said they would try to work something out so that they could stay together. Sara's lie seems to comfort Kay, and Kay wishes Sara well when she leaves on the train for her rescheduled ship to America in the company of Carter Reynolds.
The movie is really about Lana Turner, but Sean Connery's future celluloid personality does come through. His death comes a little over a third of the way through the film, but Mark's photograph is prominently displayed in the family home and appears often in the rest of film.
I think it's meant to be a two-hankie movie, but it really didn't do much for me. This movie came out about four years before "Dr. No," the first of his James Bond movies that made Sean Connery a star.
Sara is devastated. Carter Reynolds orders her to return to America, but just before taking her ship home, she visits St. Giles to see where Mark lived. She accidentally bumps into Mark's son, Brian (Martin Stephens), and then Mark's wife, Kay (Glynis Johns). She is overwhelmed by emotion and becomes ill, and stays with Brian and Kay for a time to recover. They grow quite fond of each other until Kay learns that her husband had met a woman in London, which explained why he stopped writing home. Sara finally confesses that she is the "other woman", but that Mark had left her in order to return to his family. This is ambiguous since just before Mark departed for Paris he and Sara had said they would try to work something out so that they could stay together. Sara's lie seems to comfort Kay, and Kay wishes Sara well when she leaves on the train for her rescheduled ship to America in the company of Carter Reynolds.
The movie is really about Lana Turner, but Sean Connery's future celluloid personality does come through. His death comes a little over a third of the way through the film, but Mark's photograph is prominently displayed in the family home and appears often in the rest of film.
I think it's meant to be a two-hankie movie, but it really didn't do much for me. This movie came out about four years before "Dr. No," the first of his James Bond movies that made Sean Connery a star.