Elizabeth Hopley in Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005) tells the story of Pierrepoint, who was apparently the last hangman. In England. Back when the Brits still dangled their no-goods by the neck. Timothy Spall plays the man himself, Albert Pierrepoint, born into a family of noose wranglers: His father could kill a convict in 13.5 seconds, but Tim can do it in less than eight. He lives a life of working-class ho-hummery, toiling at his regular job as a grocery deliveryman and settling down with Juliet Stevenson, who works in a tobacconist shop and regularly cooks him pork chops. When he's needed by the state, Tim hops a train to the hoosegow and gets to work with his meticulous system of calculating the right length of rope for the prisoner's height and weight. He's a faithful civil servant and a believer in the guilt of the condemned, but when he's tasked with hanging thirteen Nazis in one day at Nuremberg, he begins to question his choice of profession.