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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.
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Timothy SpallAlbert Pierrepoint -
Juliet StevensonAnnie Pierrepoint -
Mary StockleyRuth Ellis -
Lizzie HopleyDorothea Waddingham -
Joyia FitchElizabeth Volkenrath -
Sheyla ShehovichIrma Grese -
Simon ArmstrongMinister -
Ann BellViolet Van Der Elst -
Tobias MenziesLieutenant Llewelyn -
Eddie MarsanJames 'Tish' Corbitt -
Nicholas BlaneGovernor of Strangeways -
Clive BruntWarder at Strangeways -
Cavan ClerkinGeorge Cooper -
James CordenKirky -
Claire KeelanJessie Kelly -
Christopher FulfordSykes -
Bernard KayUncle Tom -
Maggie OllerenshawMary Pierrepoint -
Tim WoodwardGovernor of Holloway -
Clive FrancisField Marshall Montgomery
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