1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel.
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98 min
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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Timothy Spall | Albert Pierrepoint | Unowned |
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Juliet Stevenson | Annie Pierrepoint | Unowned |
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Mary Stockley | Ruth Ellis | Unowned |
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Lizzie Hopley | Dorothea Waddingham | Unowned |
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Joyia Fitch | Elizabeth Volkenrath | Unowned |
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Sheyla Shehovich | Irma Grese | Unowned |
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Simon Armstrong | Minister | Unowned |
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Ann Bell | Violet Van Der Elst | Unowned |
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Tobias Menzies | Lieutenant Llewelyn | Unowned |
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Eddie Marsan | James 'Tish' Corbitt | Unowned |
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Nicholas Blane | Governor of Strangeways | Unowned |
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Clive Brunt | Warder at Strangeways | Unowned |
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Cavan Clerkin | George Cooper | Unowned |
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James Corden | Kirky | Unowned |
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Claire Keelan | Jessie Kelly | Unowned |
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Christopher Fulford | Sykes | Unowned |
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Bernard Kay | Uncle Tom | Unowned |
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Maggie Ollerenshaw | Mary Pierrepoint | Unowned |
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Tim Woodward | Governor of Holloway | Unowned |
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Clive Francis | Field Marshall Montgomery | Unowned |
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Neil Fitzmaurice | Cliff the Scouser | Unowned |
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Keiran Flynn | Neville | Unowned |
| Frances Shergold | Alice | Unowned | |
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Rodney Litchfield | Sellers | Unowned |
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Ben McKay | Timothy Evans | Unowned |
| Jack Lord | Jack Ellis | Unowned | |
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Mary Jo Randle | Mrs Corbett | Unowned |
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Kate Rutter | Eileen | Unowned |
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Robin Soans | Governor Paton-Walsh | Unowned |
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Marie Critchley | Woman in Pub | Unowned |
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Paul Ready | Anthony David Farrow | Unowned |
| David Davies | Nazi Prisoner | Unowned | |
| Alex Helm | German Prisoner (uncredited) | Unowned |