Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
- 8.0
- 94 mins
- Drama
Storyline
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner, and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials, but the experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.
Plot Keywords
mother, wife, general, criminal, abolitionist, dark, emotional, england, household, prison, germany, hanging, family, career, secret, quest, rise, transformation, 1950s
Short Review
Adrian Shergold's The Last Hangman, an account of the career of Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall), Britain's final executioner, is a superior work.
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