- Drama, History
- 98 min
Rotten Tomatoes79%Metacritic68IMDb7.4
1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel.
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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Cast
- Timothy SpallAlbert Pierrepoint
- Juliet StevensonAnnie Pierrepoint
- Mary StockleyRuth Ellis
- Lizzie HopleyDorothea Waddingham
- Joyia FitchElizabeth Volkenrath
- Sheyla ShehovichIrma Grese
- Simon ArmstrongMinister
- Ann BellViolet Van Der Elst
- Tobias MenziesLieutenant Llewelyn
- Eddie MarsanJames 'Tish' Corbitt
Crew
- Adrian ShergoldDirector
- Jeff PopeScreenplay
- Bob MillsScreenplay
- Danny CohenDirector of Photography
- Martin PhippsOriginal Music Composer
- Tania ReddinEditor
- Christine LanganProducer
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