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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

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

2005 · 1h 38m

Directed by Adrian Shergold

7.1

TMDB audience score
85 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • Timothy Spall
    Albert Pierrepoint

  • Juliet Stevenson
    Annie Pierrepoint

  • Mary Stockley
    Ruth Ellis

  • Lizzie Hopley
    Dorothea Waddingham

  • Joyia Fitch
    Elizabeth Volkenrath

  • Sheyla Shehovich
    Irma Grese

  • Simon Armstrong
    Minister

  • Ann Bell
    Violet Van Der Elst

  • Tobias Menzies
    Lieutenant Llewelyn

  • Eddie Marsan
    James 'Tish' Corbitt

  • Nicholas Blane
    Governor of Strangeways

  • Clive Brunt
    Warder at Strangeways

  • Cavan Clerkin
    George Cooper

  • James Corden
    Kirky

  • Claire Keelan
    Jessie Kelly

  • Christopher Fulford
    Sykes

  • Bernard Kay
    Uncle Tom

  • Maggie Ollerenshaw
    Mary Pierrepoint