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.
Genre
History, Drama
Director
Adrian Shergold
Cast
Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Mary Stockley, Lizzie Hopley, Joyia Fitch
