The read
Scores higher than 83% of the 3,278 2000s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes79%
Metacritic68/100
85 audience votes
Key crew
- Adrian ShergoldDirector
- Jeff PopeScreenplay
- Bob MillsScreenplay
- Martin PhippsOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
