Release Date: June 8th, 2007
DVD Release Date: October 30th, 2007
R|1 hr 34 min
Plot Summary
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner, and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials, but the experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.
Cast: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Michael Norton, Cavan Clerkin, Christopher Fulford, Ian Shaw, Maggie Ollerenshaw
Director: Adrian Shergold
Genres: Drama
Production Co: Granada Television
Keywords: Rise, Dark, 1950s, Emotional, 1930s, Transformation, 1940s, Mother, Wife, Family, England, Prison, Quest
