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Pierrepoint's reputation grows and after the war, he's flown to Germany by the British Army and placed in charge of executing scores of Nazi war criminals. As a result, his secret is leaked to the press, who now broadcast his identity as the finest hangman in the land.
Feb 9, 2024 · From his school days in early-20th-century Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Pierrepoint — the most prolific hangman in modern British history, whose effects were being sold off before my eyes — had...
He and his prim, avaricious wife, Anne (Juliet Stevenson), have an unspoken agreement never to mention it, although she knows all, having stolen looks at her husband’s meticulously maintained ...
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman: Directed by Adrian Shergold. With Simon Armstrong, Ann Bell, Nicholas Blane, Clive Brunt. The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.
Pierrepoint is sent to Germany to hang 47 Nazi war criminals after the Belsen trials in 1945. While he is staggered by the number of deaths he must conduct, he carries out his duties. Pierrepoint's inner values begin to emerge in his work when one of the bodies is left without a coffin.
Jun 5, 2007 · The Pierrepoints’ marriage almost becomes a character all its own; they aid and abet one another without ever speaking of the killing business directly, together feeding a death machine neither...
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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...
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