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Title Pierrepoint : the last hangman / Weinstein Company Home Entertainment ; IFC First Take/UK Film Council and Capitol Films present a Granada production in association with Masterpiece Theatre ; producer, Christine Langan ; screenplay by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills ; director, Adrian Shergold.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : IFC Films ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Genius Entertainment, [2007]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  DVD PIERREPOINT    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD PIER    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, region 1, widescreen (enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, NTSC.
Note Title from container.
Cast Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Christopher Fulford.
Credits Director of photography, Danny Cohen ; editor, Tania Reddin ; composer, Martin Phipps ; costume designer, Mary Jane Reyner ; production designer, Candida Otton.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
Audience MPAA rating: R; Disturbing images, nudity, and brief sexuality.
Summary Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate he couldn't have imagined.
Note Special features: Commentary by director Adrian Shergold; deleted scenes.
Language English dialogue, Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Pierrepoint, Albert, 1905- -- Drama.
Executions and executioners -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Drama.
Hanging -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Capital punishment -- Drama.
Great Britain -- Drama.
Capital punishment -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Biographical -- Feature.
Historical -- Feature.
Crime -- Feature.
Feature films.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Added Author Langan, Christine.
Pope, Jeff.
Mills, Bob, 1957-
Shergold, Adrian.
Spall, Timothy, 1957-
Stevenson, Juliet.
Marsan, Eddie.
Fulford, Christopher.
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm)
IFC First Take (Firm)
UK Film Council.
Capitol Films.
Granada (Firm)
IFC Films.
Genius Entertainment.
Added Title Last hangman
Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
ISBN 1594448302
9781594448300
Standard No. 796019805407
Music No. 80540 IFC Films
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