During the shooting of the movie in England, Sir
Sean Connery was confronted by Johnny Stompanato, an ex-marine turned mob enforcer, who was in an abusive relationship with
Lana Turner. At the time, Connery and Turner got along very well, so much that after Stompanato found out about it, he suspected that they were having an affair. Stompanato, who was notorious for his jealousy and violent tendencies, then stormed to the set and threatened Connery with a gun. But he quickly disarmed Stompanato and forced him from the set. Following that incident, Stompanato was deported by Scotland Yard. Shortly after he arrived in the USA, he met his end at the hands of Turner's teenage daughter Cheryl, who fatally stabbed him in self-defence while he was beating her mother. Connery, who was filming
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) at the time of the latter incident, behaved very cautiously when he walked the streets of Los Angeles, because it was rumoured that a mobster held him responsible for Stompanato's death. That caused him to avoid the USA for several years.
