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Pierrepoint (The Last Hangman)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Dramatic true-life story of AIbert Pierrepoint (Timothy SpaIl), Britain's most notorious hangman. FoIIowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert joins the 'famiIy business' in 1934. Living a secret Iife as a master hangman, as weIl as a humbIe grocery deliveryman and IoyaI husband, Pierrepoint's reputation as the most highly regarded executioner in the land resuIts in him executing some of Britain's most infamous murderers including Derek BentIey and Ruth Ellis, and also the Nazi war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg Trials. But the media coverage from these shatters Pierrepoint's cIosely guarded anonymity turning him into a minor ceIebrity. |
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