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Aug 9, 1985 · Dance with a Stranger: Directed by Mike Newell. With Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Matthew Carroll. A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Mike Newell
- 1985-08-09
Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 British film [3] directed by Mike Newell. Telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain (1955), the film won critical acclaim, and aided the careers of two of its leading actors, Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett.
Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a British nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.
Ruth: With Toby Stephens, Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones, Mark Stanley. Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged.
- Drama
- Toby Stephens, Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones
- 2024
- Toby Stephens, Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones
Feb 19, 2024 · A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story release date. A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is a four-part drama that will premiere on ITV1 in 2024 and will be available to stream on ITVX. There's no official release date from ITV yet but the release of the first picture suggests it might be quite soon.
Roger Ebert August 23, 1985. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Ruth Ellis and David Blakely were a tragedy waiting to happen. She was a B-girl, pouring drinks and massaging men's egos in a sleazy little 1950s London nightclub. He was a rich young brat, whose life centered around his career as a race driver.
Nov 28, 1999 · Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life: With Kirsty Wark, Fiona Ormiston, John Light, Peter Forbes. Documentary on Ruth Ellis, a Welsh-born model and actress, who was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. She went to the gallows of London's Holloway prison on July 13, 1955, for the gunshot murder of her lover, David Blakely, on Easter ...
