Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

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.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Series:

Avant-garde cinema

Avant-garde cinema.

Subjects:

Ellis, Ruth, 1926-1955 -- Drama.

Female offenders -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Capital punishment -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Feature films.

Films for hard of hearing people

Genre:

Films for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Newell, Mike, 1942-

Randall-Cutler, Roger.

Delaney, Shelagh, 1939-2011.

Richardson, Miranda.

Everett, Rupert.

Holm, Ian, 1931-2020.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Film Four International.

First Film Company.

Goldcrest Films International.

MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

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."

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.

Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns, Joanne Whalley, Tom Chadbon, Jane Bertish, David Troughton, Matthew Carroll.

DVD.

English language soundtrack (mono) with subtitles available in English, French and Spanish.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

1985 Young Cinema Award, Cannes Film Festival.

Contents:

Special features: Widescreen presentation -- Alternate ending -- Original theatrical trailer -- Language: English mono -- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.

ISBN:

079284811X

9780792848110

Publisher Number:

1001447

Other Number:

45893340

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

920627

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Dance wi