This blog seems to be turning into a film review - but there are so many good films out just now - although you do have to look for them - a lot are only on release in 'arthouse' cinemas or independent movie houses. I went to see Pierrepoint at the Greenwich Picture House.
Timothy Spall is outstanding in this film as the public hangman who presided over the executions of hundreds of murderers (including dozens of Nazis at Nuremberg) from 1933 to 1955. Juliet Stevenson is an excellent support star in this British picture. Filmed, appropriately enough, in sombre tones I was impressed by the way in which it charted a career that turned out to be both professional, efficient and surprisingly humane.
At the end Albert Pierrepoint himself questioned the point of capital punishment - summuraising it as just achieving nothing more than state revenge.
Well worth seeing.
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