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." Location filming in the fishing village in Cornwall that Lana Turner's character visits, named St Giles in the film, was carried out at
Polperro. She travels by train and the station she arrives at, also called St Giles in the film, is actually
Looe railway station. The final scene of the film is of her train leaving the same station, which still exists but has been much altered since the 1950s. Connery was selected by Turner to play the role of Mark Trevor.
Johnny Stompanato incident During the film's principal photography in Britain, Connery was confronted on-set by gangster
Johnny Stompanato, then-boyfriend of
Lana Turner, who suspected the actor was having an affair with Turner. Stompanato pointed a gun at Connery and warned him to keep away from Turner. Connery responded by grabbing the gun out of Stompanato's hand and twisting his wrist, causing him to run off the set. After Stompanato's death, it was rumoured that a Los Angeles mobster held Connery responsible, causing Connery (who was then in Los Angeles to make ''Darby O'Gill And The Little People'' (1959) for
Walt Disney) to look over his shoulder nervously for a time. ==References==