Dance with a Stranger (1985)





Seperated from her husband, Ruth Ellis lives with her son over the cocktail club where she works. One night at the club, her friend and would-be protector, Desmond Cussen, introduces Ruth to David Blakely, a racing driver. Ruth and David begin a torrid affair, which is to lead to an act of violence that creates British legal history.


Books with substantial mentioning of Dance with a Stranger

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1986, A Survey of the Films of 1985
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1986


Dance with a Stranger
United Kingdom 1985

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Year: 1985
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0088987