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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.

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


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Timothy Spall

Albert Pierrepoint


Juliet Stevenson

Annie Pierrepoint


Mary Stockley

Ruth Ellis


Lizzie Hopley

Dorothea Waddingham


Joyia Fitch

Elizabeth Volkenrath


Sheyla Shehovich

Irma Grese


Ann Bell

Violet Van Der Elst


Tobias Menzies

Lieutenant Llewelyn

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