Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Name: Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Director: Adrian Shergold
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2005-12-07
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 7.073
Cast: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Mary Stockley, Lizzie Hopley, Joyia Fitch

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

*7.1

Status

Released

Production

UK Film Council

Aired

2005-12-07

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

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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