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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
TV-14
2025
45m
Drama
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Crime
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7.0
94%
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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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1 Season
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4 Episodes
Cast of A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
Lucy Boynton
Ruth Ellis
Toby Jones
John Bickford
Laurie Davidson
David Blakely
Mark Stanley
Desmond Cussen
Arthur Darvill
Victor Mishcon
Bessie Carter
Carole Findlater
Joe Armstrong
DCI Davies
Nigel Havers
Cecil Havers
Toby Stephens
Melford Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson
Dr. Charity Taylor
Ed Sayer
Anthony Findlater
Tony Wadham
Arthur Neilson
Lee Haven Jones
Director
Kelly Jones
Writer
Angie Daniell
Producer
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story Ratings & Reviews
Jay Marie Bailey
June 14, 2025
Loved this dramatisation and think Lucy Boyton played Ruth really well. As always with the British Justice System (probably not exclusive to just Britain) the minorities are always victimised
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