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Certificate 15

Cast Timothy Spall Juliet Stevenson Eddie Marsan James Corden Claire Keelan

Directors Adrian Shergold

Screenwriters Jeff Pope Bob Mills

Running Time 95 minutes

Pierrepoint
Timothy Spall portrays Britain's last hangman

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Plot
A biopic of Albert Pierrepoint (Spall), one of Britain’s last hangmen. Appointed in 1934, Pierrepoint personally handled more than 600 state-sanctioned executions — including 13 Nazi war criminals and Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged for murder in this country — before his resignation in 1956 over a wages dispute.

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