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.
Timothy Spall
as Albert Pierrepoint
Juliet Stevenson
as Annie Pierrepoint
Mary Stockley
as Ruth Ellis
Lizzie Hopley
as Dorothea Waddingham
Joyia Fitch
as Elizabeth Volkenrath
Sheyla Shehovich
as Irma Grese
Simon Armstrong
as Minister
Ann Bell
as Violet Van Der Elst
Tobias Menzies
as Lieutenant Llewelyn
Eddie Marsan
as James 'Tish' Corbitt
Nicholas Blane
as Governor of Strangeways
Clive Brunt
as Warder at Strangeways
