Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel.

APPROPIATE

2005 / 98min.

Rating7.2

Genres

Drama

History

Synopsis

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

Directors

Actors

Timothy Spall

Tobias Menzies

Eddie Marsan

Ann Bell

Mary Stockley

Juliet Stevenson

Paul Ready

Cavan Clerkin

James Corden

Christopher Fulford

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