Dance with a Stranger

Name: Dance with a Stranger
Director: Mike Newell
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Crime/detective
Released: 1984
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Matthew Carroll, Tom Chadbon

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Documentary
Drama

1984
Mike Newell
96 mins
15

Summary

Biographical drama based on the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, starring BlMiranda Richardson and Rupert Everett. While working as a nightclub hostess, Ruth is introduced by a friend to conceited young racing driver David Blakely, with whom she begins a passionate and volatile love affair.

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Review

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

See how good an actress Miranda Richardson always was, despite being internationally acclaimed for movies like Damage, Tom and Viv and Made in Dagenham. She's incandescent as Soho nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, in this absorbing, brutal account of the infamous 1955 murder case. Sticking closely to the facts about why she shot her aristocratic lover, racing driver David Blakely (Rupert Everett), this film from Donnie Brasco and Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell has a great sense of period and strikes the exact balance between fascination and luridness. Ellis was granted a posthumous pardon in 2026.

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6.6/10

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Cast

rolenameRuth EllisMiranda RichardsonDavid BlakelyRupert EverettDesmond CussenIan HolmAndyMatthew CarrollAnthony FindlaterTom ChadbonCarole FindlaterJane BertishCliff DavisDavid TroughtonClive GunnelPaul MooneyMorrie ConleyStratford JohnsChristineJoanne WhalleyBarbaraSusan KydMaryanneLesley Manville

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rolenameDirectorMike Newell

Details

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd

Released on

1985-03-01

Languages

English

Guidance

violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour