Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a British drama film directed by Adrian Shergold and written by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills. The film portrays the highly fictionalized account of the British executioner ...

Timothy Spall is the perfect choice to play Albert Pierrepoint, the British hangman who executed some 450 people from 1932 to 1955—one look at Spall’s lopsided glare and you’d probably jump through ...

Adrian Shergold’s Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, from a screenplay by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills, provides the strongest cinematic statement against capital punishment I have ever seen, but I doubt that ...

Biographical drama about England’s foremost 20th-century executioner. With Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson. Director: Adrian Shergold (1:30). R: Disturbing images, sexuality/nudity. At Lincoln Plaza, ...

The package up for auction includes an execution diary, rare photos and plaster casts of his face and hands taken after his death. Boldon Auction Galleries Limited See more of our coverage in your ...

Pierrepoint (opening June 8 at Landmarks Hillcrest Cinemas) bears the subtitle The Last Hangman. Apparently that's not entirely accurate but the film proves to be a fascinating portrait of a man whose ...

Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a biopic of England's most prolific modern executioner, and with a subject like that, tone is all. Shergold goes for a kind of gray-hued miserablism, ...