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

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