Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

2005
★★★★☆ 7.0/10
⏱️ 98 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
DramaHistory
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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Director
Adrian Shergold
Writer
Jeff Pope, Bob Mills
Producer
Andy Harries, Paul Trijbits, Jeff Pope

Production

UK Film Council, Granada Productions

Keywords

englandbiographybased on true storyhangmanexecutionercapital punishment1940s1950s