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      • A suitably sombre treatment of a sombre story, Pierrepoint is nevertheless a riveting drama, sketching out not only the salient facts of Albert Pierrepoint's life but the turmoil in which that life caused in his soul
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  2. Mar 19, 2014 · Timothy Spall gives a stunning performance in this compelling bio-pic of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most (in)famous hangman.

  3. Jun 5, 2007 · Since Albert Pierrepoint was among Britain’s most prolific (though in point of fact not its last) hangmen – the film credits him with over 608 hangings – there’s good reason for the film ...

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  4. Nov 1, 2007 · In “Pierrepoint, the Last Hangman,” he plays Albert Pierrepoint, the last official chief hangman for the United Kingdom, credited with at least 435 executions. He kept a meticulous journal, with neatly ruled columns for name, date, place, length of rope and total time required.

  5. May 29, 2007 · Timothy Spall brings understated, nuanced complexity to Pierrepoint – The Last Hangman, walling up doubt and disgust behind a genial façade as his titular government employee follows in pop’s footsteps to become Britain’s finest (and, eventually, final) executioner.

  6. Adrian Shergold's The Last Hangman, an account of the career of Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall), Britain's final executioner, is a superior work. Full Review | Feb 15, 2021.

  7. Mar 30, 2006 · Timothy Spall gives a career-best performance in the fascinating British biopic Pierrepoint (aka The Last Hangman, the film's factually incorrect American title).

  8. Jun 8, 2007 · The movie, directed by Adrian Shergold from a screenplay by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills, uses Pierrepoint’s story to address the issue of capital punishment from a shockingly intimate...

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