Editing Dance with a Stranger (section)

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{{Infobox film
| name = Dance with a Stranger
| image = Dance with a Stranger.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]
| producer = Roger Randall-Cutler
| writer = [[Shelagh Delaney]]
| starring = [[Miranda Richardson]]<br />[[Rupert Everett]]
| music = [[Richard Hartley (composer)|Richard Hartley]]<br>theme song by [[Mari Wilson]]
| cinematography = [[Peter Hannan (cinematographer)|Peter Hannan]]
| editing =
| studio = [[Goldcrest Films|Goldcrest Films International]]
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released = {{Film date|1985|03|1|UK|df=yes}}
| runtime = 102 min.
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =£1,360,000<ref name="nigel">Borne, Nigel. "Little film little profit." Sunday Times [London, England] 26 January 1986: 31. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 March 2014.</ref> or £1.5 million<ref name="org">{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-back-to-the-future-the-fall-and-rise-of-the-british-film-industry-in-the-1980s.pdf|page=21|title=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing|website=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</ref>
| gross = £850,000 (UK)<br>$3 million (US)<br>$1 million (other territories)<ref name="nigel"/>
}}
'''''Dance with a Stranger'''''  is a 1985 British film<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgDxuexxEloC&q=dance+with+a+stranger+film+tragedy&pg=PA71|title=Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The Actor's Perspective|first=Michael|last=Dobson|date=30 November 2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521671224}}</ref> directed by [[Mike Newell (director)|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.