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Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life

RUTH ELLIS: A LIFE FOR A LIFE

Directed by Farren Blackburn
United Kingdom, 1999
Documentary, Biography, Drama

Synopsis

About Ruth Ellis (1926-1955), 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.

Synopsis

About Ruth Ellis (1926-1955), 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.