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Dance with a stranger / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Goldcrest in association with National Film Finance Corporation and Film Four International present ; a First Film Company production.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Videos Dance
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Avant-garde cinema
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Ellis, Ruth, 1926-1955--Drama.
- Ellis, Ruth.
- Female offenders--Great Britain--Drama.
- Female offenders.
- Capital punishment--Great Britain--Drama.
- Capital punishment.
- Feature films.
- Films for hard of hearing people.
- Ellis, Ruth, 1926-1955.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Films for the hearing impaired.
- Films for hard of hearing people.
- Feature films.
- Feature films -- Great Britain.
- Drama.
- Fiction films.
- DVD-Video discs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., ©2001.
- Language Note:
- English language soundtrack (mono) with subtitles available in English, French and Spanish.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- Summary:
- Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Ruth is a hostess in a London nightclub, where she meets David Blakely. They begin an affair, but David is abusive. When David decides to leave her, she becomes intensely jealous.
- Contents:
- Special features: Widescreen presentation
- Alternate ending
- Original theatrical trailer
- Language: English mono
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.
- Participant:
- Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns, Joanne Whalley, Tom Chadbon, Jane Bertish, David Troughton, Matthew Carroll.
- Credits:
- Directed by Mike Newell ; produced by Roger Randall-Cutler ; written by Shelagh Delaney ; music by Richard Hartley ; director of photography, Peter Hannan ; editing, Mick Audsley.
- Notes:
- Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.66:1).
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.
- Special features include an alternate ending and the original theatrical trailer.
- "MGM DVD."
- 1985 Young Cinema Award, Cannes Film Festival.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Marta Varela.
- ISBN:
- 079284811X
- 9780792848110
- OCLC:
- 45893340
- Publisher Number:
- 027616857675
- 1001447 MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
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