Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060052410887
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Label: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd
Languages: EnglishSubtitles For The Hearing ImpairedDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd
Theatrical Release Date: 2005

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Rating: - Mixed feelings
I've long been interested in the history of capital punishment in this country and could hardly fail to know the name of Albert Pierrepoint. It was therefore inevitable that I was going to see this film sooner or later.

I write this review as someone who is opposed to capital punishment and in favour of life imprisonment. That may come as some surprise to readers, given some of the criticisms I'm going to level at this film.

I think this film is, very watchable ... Read More

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Rating: - Grim, interesting, quietly polemical, and with two magnificent performances by Timothy Spall and Juliet Stevenson
Albert Pierrepoint was a paragon of lower-middle-class respectability. He and his wife, Annie, lived in a small, tidy house. His favorite supper was pork chop. He was not too keen a man, but serious about those things he held important. Annie was loyal, kept a quiet house and served his meals on time. They had no children. Albert Pierrepoint's job was delivering wholesale supplies to markets. He also had a part-time job, a job he didn't speak about. He hanged people. He did so punctiliously, with ... Read More

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Rating: - No Hanging Around The Bar
No Hanging Around The Bar was a notice said to have been on the counter of Pierrepoint's pub (the Help The Poor Struggler) though he himself always denied it. It seems to denote a levity about his second string income-source which in most respects he discouraged. This film is, I think, a fairly good psychological portrayal of the famous executioner, based mainly on his own book Executioner: Pierrepoint, which has been reprinted or re-issued not long ago. Although the actor playing Pierrepoint was ... Read More

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Rating: - Chilling But Compelling
Let me state at the outset I am a supporter of Capital Punishment for the most heinous crimes and, having watched Pierrepoint, that view has not changed. However this review is of the film biographry of Britain's most famous hangman not a debate as to the rights and wrongs.

The film appears to reference both Albert's own autobiography and that written by Syd Dernley - an assistant hangman who worked with him on many occasions.

Overall the story is told quite well, though ... Read More

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Rating: - Utterly absorbing, pretty much faultless movie making
In cinema, the difference between observation and participation remains the difference between the very, very good and the truly exceptional. This film is, without question, truly exceptional.

Ordinarily, it would not be necessary to add much beyond that statement, but in this case it might be worthwhile considering the subject matter.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be present at a hanging? Well this film will put you in that room, right there in the middle ... Read More

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