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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

Name: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
Released: 2025
Rating: 77

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77 Metascore
2025-2025
1 Season
Suspense, Drama, Documentary

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Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manager, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged.

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Toby Jones

John Bickford

Toby Stephens

Melford Stevenson QC

Lucy Boynton

Ruth Ellis

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

1.1

Mon, Feb 17, 202546 mins

Young nightclub manager Ruth Ellis is arrested for murder. She has shot her lover, glamorous racing driver David Blakely. The year is 1955, and Ruth faces the prospect of being hanged for her crime. But Ruth's lawyer suspects that the tragedy runs deeper than meets the eye. Now he begins a desperate fight to save Ruth from the gallows. But he fights in vain.

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