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Upcoming Movies and TV shows ... Rent Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman on Apple TV, or buy it on Apple TV. ... Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member good, be ...
Following in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become t...
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman An eccentric offering from the Toronto Film Festival, this gripping film chronicles the life of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most prolific hangman. Genres
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.
According to Pierrepoint's mother, the same job had turned his father into an alcoholic and hustled him into an early grave, yet Pierrepoint feels he has the unique skills to succeed. The job requires strong statistical abilities in order to judge the drop required to snap a prisoner's neck without ripping off his head.
Dec 7, 2005 · Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005) 1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel. Genre: Drama, History Release Date: 2005-12-07
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