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Dance With a Stranger (Ws) [DVD] [1985] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Staring: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns, Joanne Whalley
Director: Mike Newell
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Our Price: £4.82

Product Details
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792848110
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
ISBN: 079284811X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-01-23
Running Time: 102
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1985-08-09

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Customer Reviews

Very Interesting., 2010-06-20
It was a very moving film in many ways. Because it is about the last woman to be hung in Britain, it is also quite interesting. It certainly says you shouldn't mess with anyone's mind as you never know what could happen. It is certainly not for anyone who wants to see a light-hearted film. It is still very good nevertheless.

Sad and True, 2010-05-12
I have given this five stars because it seems well-acted and historically accurate; it's also a story that needs to be known. That said, it's not an uplifting tale. The emotional immaturity of the two main characters, particularly Blakeley, is continually evident, with that of Ruth Ellis of course leading to her hanging. One is left with the feeling that maybe the contribution of her case to the eventual abolition of hanging in this country was about the only real achievement of her short life.
The real innocent, and forgotten, victim was probably her poor son Andre who lived a life of neglect punctuated by his mother being taken from him and systematically killed.
The story is of peripheral interest to students of motoring and motor racing history of the period, like myself. Blakeley's stepfather was Humphrey Cooke, who was the main financier behind the ERA racing car produced by the Raymond Mays organisation in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Blakeley's racing car, "The Emperor", was an HRG, powered by a 1500cc Singer engine.

Dance with a stranger, 2010-04-09
Very interesting I never knew the reason why Ruth Ellis was hanged it give a very good insight into how in fact she was mentally disturbed.

Stranger than fiction, 2009-12-27
I like it as much now as when it first came out. A really beautifully directed and nuanced piece that deals with the true story of the last woman to be executed in Britain, with Miranda Richardson in a stunning performance as a lower-class girl on the make and Rupert Everett being totally convincing as an upper-class cad she falls for. For the evocation alone of grimy, washed-out 50s Britain it's excellent, but there's a true story of human passion and hopelessness here as well. My only gripe is that The Ruth Ellis Story is actually only a few pages of print, so I have no idea how that is marketed as a 'special feature'.

Bleak 1950s England, 2010-04-23
This was one of the first films featuring explicit sex I saw as a schoolboy. Ever since, I've found Miranda Richardson's portrayal of the lubricious Ruth Ellis rather haunting. The scenes when she's pressed against the headboard or disappearing in the fog with Rupert Everett linger in the mind. The soundtrack is melancholy and the subject matter is misery, multiplied.

It felt rather weird watching it again. It has been etched in my memory as a depiction of male/female sexual relations from the perspective of an English public school boy: sordid, humiliating and self-destructive. It works because there's something romantic about it, and because of the sheer beauty of Miranda Richardson.