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.

• DirectorAdrian Shergold
• Release7 December 2005
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration1h 38m
• Budget?
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.1
  78 reviews
• Productions

  UK Film Council, Granada Productions