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Dance with a Stranger

  • Director:  Mike Newell
  • DOP: Peter Hannan
  • Year: 1985
  • Genre:  Biography, Crime, Drama
  • Runtime: 96 minutes

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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Cast and Crew

Producers

  • Roger Randall-Cutler

Writers

  • Shelagh Delaney

Cast

  • Miranda Richardson
  • Rupert Everett
  • Ian Holm

Awards

  • Winner Cannes Film Festival
  • Winner Evening Standard British Film Awards
  • Winner of 1 other award
  • plus 3 nominations