Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life

Overview

Documentary on Ruth Ellis, a Welsh-born model and actress, who was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. She went to the gallows of London's Holloway prison on July 13, 1955, for the gunshot murder of her lover, David Blakely, on Easter Sunday, April 10, of that same year. She was 28 at the time and was hanged, despite a 50,000-signature petition from the British public for leniency.

Directed by Farren Blackburn

Top cast

Kirsty Wark

Self - Presenter

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Fiona Ormiston

Ruth Ellis

John Light

David Blakely

Peter Forbes

Desmond Cussen

Julian Curry

Mr. Justice Havers

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Philip Dunbar

Christmas Humphries

Alastair G. Cumming

Ant Findlater (as Alastair Cumming)

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