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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.
December 7, 2005
UK Film Council, Granada Productions
33 people
Timothy Spall
Albert Pierrepoint
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Juliet Stevenson
Annie Pierrepoint
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Mary Stockley
Ruth Ellis
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Lizzie Hopley
Dorothea Waddingham
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Joyia Fitch
Elizabeth Volkenrath
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Sheyla Shehovich
Irma Grese
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Simon Armstrong
Minister
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Ann Bell
Violet Van Der Elst
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Tobias Menzies
Lieutenant Llewelyn
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Eddie Marsan
James 'Tish' Corbitt
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Nicholas Blane
Governor of Strangeways
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Clive Brunt
Warder at Strangeways
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