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Dance with a Stranger
Film posterDirected by Mike Newell Produced by Roger Randall-Cutler Written by Shelagh Delaney Starring Miranda Richardson
Rupert EverettMusic by Theme song by Mari Wilson Distributed by 20th Century Fox (UK)
The Samuel Goldwyn Company (USA)Release date(s) 1 March 1985 (UK) Running time 102 min. Language English Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 British drama film, directed by Mike Newell. Telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain in the fifties, this moving biographical British film won critical acclaim, and brought particular notice to the careers of both Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett. The screenplay was by Shelagh Delaney, author of A Taste of Honey, and her third major screenplay.
The theme song "Would You Dance With a Stranger" was performed by Mari Wilson, and provided her with a hit single in the same year.
Cast
- Miranda Richardson as Ruth Ellis
- Rupert Everett as David Blakeley
- Ian Holm as Desmond Cussen
- Stratford Johns as Morrie Conley
- Joanne Whalley as Christine
- Tom Chadbon as Anthony Findlater
- Jane Bertish as Carole Findlater
- David Troughton as Cliff Davis
- Matthew Carroll as Andy
- Lesley Manville as Maryanne
- David Beale as Man in Little Club
- Charon Bourke as Ballroom Singer
Awards
Mike Newell won Award of the Youth at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival for Dance with a Stranger. Miranda Richardson won Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, while Ian Holm won Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1985 for this and other films.
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& TVA Taste of Honey (1961) · The White Bus (1967) · Charlie Bubbles (1967) · The House That Jack Built (1977) · Dance with a Stranger (1985) · The Railway Station Man (1992) · Three Days in August (1992)Films directed by Mike Newell 1970s The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)1980s The Awakening (1980) · Bad Blood (1982) · Dance with a Stranger (1985) · The Good Father (1985) · Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)1990s Enchanted April (1992) · Into the West (1992) · Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) · An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) · Donnie Brasco (1997) · Pushing Tin (1999)2000s Mona Lisa Smile (2003) · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) · Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)2010s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)Categories:- 1985 films
- Films directed by Mike Newell
- Films with a capital punishment theme
- Goldcrest Films films
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