For other uses, see Dance with a Stranger (disambiguation).
1985 British film
Dance with a Stranger
Film poster
Directed by
Mike Newell
Written by
Shelagh Delaney
Produced by
Roger Randall-Cutler
Starring
Miranda Richardson Rupert Everett
Cinematography
Peter Hannan
Music by
Richard Hartley theme song by Mari Wilson
Production company
Goldcrest Films International
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
1 March 1985 (1985-03-01) (UK)
Running time
102 min.
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
£1,360,000[1] or £1.5 million[2]
Box office
£850,000 (UK) $3 million (US) $1 million (other territories)[1]
Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 British film[3] directed by Mike Newell. Telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain (1955), the film won critical acclaim, and aided the careers of two of its leading actors, Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett. The screenplay was by Shelagh Delaney, author of A Taste of Honey, and was her third major screenplay. The story of Ellis has resonance in Britain because it provided part of the background to the extended national debates that led to the progressive abolition of capital punishment from 1965.
The theme song, a cover version of Peggy Lee's 1951 track "Would You Dance with a Stranger?", was performed by Mari Wilson and released as a single.
^ abBorne, Nigel. "Little film little profit." Sunday Times [London, England] 26 January 1986: 31. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 March 2014.
^"Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 21.
^Dobson, Michael (30 November 2006). Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The Actor's Perspective. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521671224.
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