A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
Told over two parallel timelines, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story reveals secret truths about the case which have remained hidden for decades, poses tantalising questions about what really happened in the months before Ruth killed her lover David Blakely, and sheds light on the life of one of Britain's most infamous murderesses.
The drama depicts Ruth's entry into a dizzying upper class London world that promises so much, but ultimately delivers treachery. We follow her glamorous lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her abusive relationship with the man she later gunned down in cold blood, her arrest, trial and the subsequent legal fight to reprieve her before she was hanged by infamous hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, in Holloway Prison, aged just 28.
Forgatás alatt 2025.03 - 2025.02 | 46 perc @ITV1 , GB
Galéria Lucy Boynton (Ruth Ellis), Toby Jones (John Bickford), Laurie Davidson (David Blakely), Mark Stanley (Desmond Cussen), Joe Armstrong (DCI Davies), Audrey Brisson (Jacqueline Dyer), Bessie Carter (Carole Findlater), Paul Hilton (Christmas Humphreys QC), Toby Stephens (Melford Stevenson QC) És a többiek Nigel Havers (Judge Havers)
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Ruth Ellis is arrested standing over her lover's dead body with a gun in her
hand. The police believe it to be an open and shut case but Ruth's solicitor,
John Bickford, starts to suspect there's more to the tragedy than meets the
eye. While he starts to discover the truth, we follow Ruth from the beginning of
her passionate affair with David as she journeys into his glamorous upper
middle-class world. And as the relationship intensifies, we glimpse David's
more controlling and abusive side and a darker romance begins to develop.
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At the Old Bailey, the prejudices of the British class and legal systems judge
Ruth for far more than her crime. Bickford is concerned that Ruth is
withholding vital information which might save her life and outside the
courtroom, we come to understand just what Ruth sacrificed for David and
how trapped she was within a heavily toxic love triangle.
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Found guilty and condemned to hang in three week's time, Ruth initially
accepts her fate but becomes more desperate as her time draws near and her
lawyer puts pressure on the Home Office for a reprieve. As Ruth reflects on the
past few months, we learn that she had become pregnant with David's child.
Having lost everything she worked so hard for, with her relationship becoming
more violent, Ruth relies on Desmond to provide for her and her son. And as
we watch the crumbling of her past life, the pressures of the imminent future
and death take centre stage. Will reprieve be granted?
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The day before Ruth's execution, she finally agrees to tell her new lawyer,
Victor Mishcon, the full story, the whole truth. Mishcon has twenty-four hours
to save her life. We flashback to the weeks leading up to David's murder and
now understand how his death came about. The story comes full circle and we
see its tragic, compelling events with fresh eyes.
