Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

• UK Film Council
• Granada Productions
• Timothy Spall
• Juliet Stevenson
• Mary Stockley
• Lizzie Hopley
• Joyia Fitch
• Sheyla Shehovich
• Simon Armstrong
• Ann Bell