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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

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.
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Chicago Reader
June 21, 2007
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.
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Film Threat
August 07, 2007
Spall is more than worthy of future leading roles.
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July 17, 2009
Plodding biopic.
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San Francisco Chronicle
June 22, 2007
Grim and disturbing yet perversely riveting.
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New Zealand Herald
September 01, 2007
Conceived as a television film, this recreation of the life and times of hangman Albert Pierrepoint is both unfalteringly grim and mesmerisingly watchable.
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Boston Globe
June 15, 2007
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.
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Monsters and Critics
September 07, 2007
Albert Pierrepoint single-handedly killed over 450 people in his career, dispatching most of them with an icy precision in less than 30 seconds.
Toronto Star
June 15, 2007
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.
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Globe and Mail
June 15, 2007
[The film's] grittiness instantly adds to the historically and socio-economically convincing picture of working-class Yorkshire in the last century.
Oregonian
July 13, 2007
Overdramatizes Albert's 24-year career.
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Urban Cinefile
October 09, 2007
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
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Chicago Sun-Times
November 02, 2007
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.
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