Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman 2005 Watch Free in HD

The film loosely follows Britain's most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall), from the time he is first trained for the job and accepted onto the list of the country's official hangmen in 1932 until his resignation in 1956.

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Biography

Actors:

Simon Armstrong, Ann Forrest Bell, Nicholas Blane, Clive Brunt, Cavan Clerkin, James Corden, Marie Critchley, Neil Fitzmaurice, Keiran Flynn, Clive Francis, Christopher Fulford, ...»

Director:

Adrian Shergold

Country:

United Kingdom

Release:

2005

IMDb:

7.4

Quality:

Duration:

90 min

Chicago Reader

The movie grows more compelling in the latter half as British public opinion turns against capital punishment and Pierrepoint begins to have his own doubts.

June 21, 2007

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Film Threat

Spall is more than worthy of future leading roles.

August 07, 2007

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Plodding biopic.

July 17, 2009

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San Francisco Chronicle

Grim and disturbing yet perversely riveting.

June 22, 2007

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New Zealand Herald

Conceived as a television film, this recreation of the life and times of hangman Albert Pierrepoint is both unfalteringly grim and mesmerisingly watchable.

September 01, 2007

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Boston Globe

Very much a bookend to Vera Drake in its mixture of post war British reserve and ugly reality. [Actor] Spall makes it work, creating a little man with big and terrible secrets.

June 15, 2007

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Monsters and Critics

Albert Pierrepoint single-handedly killed over 450 people in his career, dispatching most of them with an icy precision in less than 30 seconds.

September 07, 2007

Toronto Star

The very title of this movie seems to message its doom. What could possibly be dramatic enough about Britain's last hangman to carry our interest over a 90-minute film? A whole lot, it turns out.

June 15, 2007

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Globe and Mail

[The film's] grittiness instantly adds to the historically and socio-economically convincing picture of working-class Yorkshire in the last century.

June 15, 2007

Oregonian

Overdramatizes Albert's 24-year career.

July 13, 2007

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Urban Cinefile

A suitably sombre treatment of a sombre story, Pierrepoint is nevertheless a riveting drama, sketching out not only the salient facts of Albert Pierrepoint's life but the turmoil in which that life caused in his soul

October 09, 2007

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Chicago Sun-Times

The key to the film is in the performances by Spall and Stevenson -- and by Marsan. The utter averageness of the characters, their lack of insight, their normality, contrasts with the subject matter in an unsettling way.

November 02, 2007

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