--- title: 'Dance with a Stranger (1985)' type: 'film' director: 'Mike Newell' released: '1985-03-01' runtime_minutes: 97 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/dance-with-a-stranger-1985' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088987/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Dance with a Stranger (1985) 1985 · 97 min · Drama, History, Crime · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 British film 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. The screenplay was by Shelagh Delaney, author of A Taste of Honey, and was her third major screenplay. The story of Ellis has resonance in Britain because it provided part of the background to the extended national debates that led to the progressive abolition of capital punishment from 1965. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mike Newell](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-newell) - **Screenplay:** [Shelagh Delaney](https://cinepixo.com/people/shelagh-delaney) - **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Hartley](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-hartley) - **Director of Photography:** [Peter Hannan](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-hannan) - **Editor:** [Mick Audsley](https://cinepixo.com/people/mick-audsley) ## Cast - [Lesley Manville](https://cinepixo.com/people/lesley-manville) - [Tom Chadbon](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-chadbon) - [Stratford Johns](https://cinepixo.com/people/stratford-johns) - [Rupert Everett](https://cinepixo.com/people/rupert-everett) - [Jane Bertish](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-bertish) - [Joanne Whalley](https://cinepixo.com/people/joanne-whalley) - [Miranda Richardson](https://cinepixo.com/people/miranda-richardson) - [Tracy Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort](https://cinepixo.com/people/tracy-somerset-duchess-of-beaufort) - [Ian Holm](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-holm) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/dance-with-a-stranger-1985 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1159332); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.