dance with a stranger

Director: mike newell

Actor: miranda richardson,rupert everett,ian holm,matthew carroll

Data Published: Fri Mar 01 1985

Genres: Biography,Crime,Drama

Key Words: love,1950s,female criminal,true crime,murder by gunshot

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088987/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_with_a_Stranger

Description: Dance with a Stranger is a movie starring Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, and Ian Holm. A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis,...

Plot: A former nude model and prostitute, Ruth is manageress of a London drinking club frequented by racing drivers, living in a flat above with her illegitimate son Andy. Another child is in the custody of her estranged husband's family. In the club she meets David, an immature young man from a well-off family who wants to succeed in motor racing but suffers from lack of money and overuse of alcohol. Ruth falls for his looks and charm, but it is a doomed relationship. Without a job he cannot afford to marry her and his family would never accept her. When he makes a drunken scene in the club, she is fired and made homeless. A wealthy admirer secures a flat for her and her son but she still sees David. When she tells him she is pregnant, he does nothing about it and she miscarries. Distraught, she goes to a house in Hampstead where she believes David is at a party. He comes out and goes with a girl to a pub. Ruth waits outside the pub and, when he emerges, kills him with four shots. She is arrested, tried and hanged.