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Before He Was 007, Sean Connery Got Tangled Up in a Real Hollywood Mob Scandal

Connery said he punched Johnny Stompanato while filming with Lana Turner, then later went into hiding after the mob-connected enforcer was killed.

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A few years before landing his breakthrough role as James Bond in 1962’s Dr. No, Sean Connery shared the screen with Lana Turner in the 1958 melodrama Another Time, Another Place. Unbeknownst to Connery, Turner was in a relationship with a guy named Johnny Stompanato, who was a bodyguard and enforcer for notorious mobster Mickey Cohen. He was also reportedly pretty abusive toward Turner. Out of the blue, as Connery and Turner were working on the film in England, Stompanato showed up to the set.

Turner nervously........

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