10 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Stories Better Than The Actual Plot

You know it's an old movie when Sean Connery plays the male lead and doesn't even get billing on the poster. Released in '58, it claimed to be "Introducing Sean Connery". The film was a vehicle for perennial beauty Lana Turner - one she needed, because she had recently suffered a series of flops and lost her contract with MGM studios and suffered her fifth divorce.

Here's where an enforcer for Mickey Cohen comes into the picture. Johnny Stompanato had a strange history with women, including converting to Islam while serving in China during World War II, in order to marry a Turkish woman. He abandoned her, along with their son, after moving back to the U.S. After another failed marriage, he started dating Turner.

During, filming Stompanato showed up on set and started arguing with a young Sean Connery - claiming that Connery was 'flirting with his broad'. Keep in mind that Stompanato was a Marine veteran who fought at Okinawa and Peleliu in the '40s. Also keep in mind that by argue I mean he pulled a gun on Connery.

Connery quickly reached out, ripped the gun from the noted mafia enforcer's hand and twisted his wrist hard enough that he ran away. Stompanato was banned from the set and shortly thereafter was stabbed to death by Turner's teenage daughter. The rumor at the time was that she stabbed him because he was beating Turner because of what Connery had done to him - resulting in Connery 'laying low' for a while.