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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 2:31:43 GMT -6
movie is on you tube, they don't follow his autobiography very closely, change the dates around on some of the executions deffently worth watching. ten parts to the movie
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Post by leopard32 on Jul 1, 2009 5:33:40 GMT -6
Although the filming of the hangings is reasonably well done the whole film is riddled with stupid inaccuracies. Initially the title was to be the "Last Hangman" until presumably someone pointed out that hangings continued for another 8 1/2 years after Albert Pierrepoint resigned. The main thrust of the film - that he resigned because of having to hang a friend is also nonsense. The "friend" was James Corbitt who he hanged on 28th November 1950 and he resigned over a fee dispute in January 1956, over 5 years later. Pierrepoint like all British hangmen was not compelled to hang anybody - he was offered each job by the Sheriff of the county in which the person had been condemned and he could refuse. It is such a shame that the opportunity and funding to make this film was squandered.
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Post by swif on Jul 1, 2009 6:42:24 GMT -6
I have seen the film, I thought it was quite good, of course i dont know his story that well as Leopard32 does though
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Post by leopard32 on Jul 1, 2009 8:32:38 GMT -6
I have seen the film, I thought it was quite good, of course i dont know his story that well as Leopard32 does though Swif, There is a very good book on the Pierrepoints entitled "Pierrepoint : A family of Executioners" by Steve Fielding. Also have a look at www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hangmen.html on my website for a less detailed view. Richard
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Post by Matt on Jul 1, 2009 18:39:08 GMT -6
I watched it last year, and thought it was quite good enough, even if factually inaccurate. I found the part about Pierrepoint serving as the British executioner of Nazi war criminals particularly interesting.
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Post by swif on Jul 2, 2009 6:43:43 GMT -6
I have seen the film, I thought it was quite good, of course i dont know his story that well as Leopard32 does though Swif, There is a very good book on the Pierrepoints entitled "Pierrepoint : A family of Executioners" by Steve Fielding. Also have a look at www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hangmen.html on my website for a less detailed view. Richard Thanks for the info
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2009 19:15:39 GMT -6
I own the dvd was worth a look i also too found the part about the nazi hangings good as well
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Jul 2, 2009 23:17:58 GMT -6
Pierrepoint became quite anti by the end. Someone once said of him, 'after you've hung 680 people, its a hell of a time to find out you're actually not for the death penalty.'
I liked the film.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2009 1:04:11 GMT -6
I liked the film also, I think it borrowed very heavily from Syd Dernley book he Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner who was one of Pierrepoints assistants for 20 hangings from 1949-1954. The movie made allot more of the Tish and Tosh friendship than Pierrepoints autobiography did; he merely mentions that he knew the man as a customer who would come into his pub on occasion. Lots more stuff to pick apart but it was still a good movie. Reading this book several years ago was how I first learned how different the Brit way of hanging was so different from the one shown by Hollywood. I find it incredible that they were able to execute a person often in less than 10 seconds.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Jul 3, 2009 1:20:55 GMT -6
We sure had hanging down to a science. By the time the condemned was off the cell bunk, he was halfway through the gallows trapdoor. We go from being effective death penalty 'practicioners' to letting murderers free in ten years
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Post by Potassium_Pixie on Jul 3, 2009 18:28:34 GMT -6
We have been going soft in recent years. That is pretty sad. You let a murderer free, obviously he is going to kill again. A murderer isn't reformed by only spending 5 or 10 years in the clink.
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Post by furoraceltica on Jul 31, 2009 4:38:29 GMT -6
Britain has ceased to care about murder victims. There are around 800 murders a year in the UK, and the average time served on a "life sentence" is 12 years. Thats because the European Union (EU) ruled that LWOP is a "human rights violation".
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Post by honeyroastedpeanut on Jul 31, 2009 7:02:39 GMT -6
Britain has ceased to care about murder victims. There are around 800 murders a year in the UK, and the average time served on a "life sentence" is 12 years. Thats because the European Union (EU) ruled that LWOP is a "human rights violation". Why is it the EU's fault that your murderers walk out after 12 years? You have no idea what you're talking about and give a false image. In Germany (part of the EU as you might have heard in the news once) the average life sentence is between 19-20 years (which is probably not much difference to the US average). You can moan as much as you like but it's the fault of your government and/or your courts that they get out that fast, not the EU's fault. Additionally you are probably (as always) mixing up the Council of Europe which has the European Court for Human Rights and the EU with its European Court of Justice. What you're saying is simply not true, you're deliberately giving a false impression to others. I will post everytime you spread these lies here and this not because I like the EU (they sure do many things wrong because that's what politics is about).
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Post by dogrose on Jul 31, 2009 12:00:32 GMT -6
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