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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.
Theatrical
Apr 7, 2006
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 30, 2007
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
UK Film Council, Granada Productions
Cast
Full credits →T
Timothy Spall
Albert Pierrepoint
J
Juliet Stevenson
Annie Pierrepoint
M
Mary Stockley
Ruth Ellis
L
Lizzie Hopley
Dorothea Waddingham
S
Sheyla Shehovich
Irma Grese
S
Simon Armstrong
Minister
A
Ann Bell
Violet Van Der Elst
T
Tobias Menzies
Lieutenant Llewelyn
E
Eddie Marsan
James 'Tish' Corbitt
N
Nicholas Blane
Governor of Strangeways
C
Clive Brunt
Warder at Strangeways
C
Cavan Clerkin
George Cooper
James Corden
Kirky
C
Claire Keelan
Jessie Kelly
C
Christopher Fulford
Sykes
B
Bernard Kay
Uncle Tom
M
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Mary Pierrepoint
T
Tim Woodward
Governor of Holloway
C
Clive Francis
Field Marshall Montgomery
N
Neil Fitzmaurice
Cliff the Scouser
