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Dance with a Stranger (1985) Rank 5 Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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 ...read the complete Dance with a Stranger movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Dark, haunting kichen-sink noir, deftly done; the life and death of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged for murder in England in 1955. The screenplay by Shelagh Delaney takes a few liberties for the sake of dramatic license but by and large keeps ...read the complete Dance with a Stranger movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
As soon as their eyes met across a smoky bar, both Ellis and Blakely were doomed. The pair quickly developed a love-hate relationship, as Blakely's obsession with the platinum blonde waitress at first frightened her. Inevitably, the idea of ...read the complete Dance with a Stranger movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
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by Todd Schaffner on March 11, 2008
I became interested in the history of capital punishment in Great Britain during 2007. In looking up this subject on the internet I discovered the case of Ruth Ellis, whose murder case, conviction, and execution remains controversial to this day. ...
by John Farr "The Be... on July 06, 2007
Beautifully rendered, superbly acted film recreates events leading up to one of England's most famous crimes of passion. Newell painstakingly revives the look and feel of 1950's London, using this sordid affair to examine the ingrained class differences ...
by C. O. DeRiemer on July 05, 2005
Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson) was a night club hostess in one of London's private clubs. It was a Spring evening in 1954 when David Blakely (Rupert Everett) walked in with some friends. Little more than a year later, Ruth Ellis was hanged for the ...
by S. Hebbron "S B H... on March 23, 2005
This film was Richardson's first outing as a movie actress and she is outstanding, Everett is also good as the callous playboy, though he has never quite managed to build on his first performance in the way Richardson did. Holme is aslo excellent as the ...
by Laura Torrespico on February 07, 2005
Ruth Ellis was put to death because she was a resentful woman with a gun. She was a girl that had a baby by an American soldier who she claimed was killed the same year her son was born in 1944. In 1950, she married a dentist and had a girl, but that ...
by Hiram Gomez Pardo on October 20, 2004
Ruth Ellis is a gentle waiter . She has a son and lives for him and his welfare . But soon she will meet David; a man who will become her only subject of desire and illusion .
And David is just a gigolo without any future . He lives as many people does ; ...
This is as good a cinimatic achievement of a factual homocide as I've seen since In Cold Blood, the infamous Truman Capote nonfiction novel. Miranda Richardson is rivoting, her performance superlative, as she plunges deep into the depths of depair and ...
by Milo "gjm" on July 17, 2003
If there is one problem with Dance With a Stranger it has to be that inevitably one becomes so mesmerized with the performance of Miranda Richardson there is a danger of missing the other performances. The nuances of her character's brittle emotions are ...
by "marleyscott" on October 12, 2001
This a rivoting story, made all the more incredible given the fact that it is based on the true-life events surrounding the life of Ruth Ellis, the last women to be hanged in the UK. The casting of Miranda Richardson as the love obsessed, call girl in a ...
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