Exclusive: Toby Jones is to play the solicitor who tried to save Ruth Ellis in ITV’s upcoming drama about the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
Vera producer Silverprint Pictures has rounded out cast on Ruth, with Laurie Davidson (Mary and George), Mark Stanley (Happy Valley), Joe Armstrong (Happy Valley), Arthur Darvill (Broadchurch), Juliet Stevenson and Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) also boarding.
Based on Carol Ann Lee’s biography A Fine Day For Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story, the show sees Boynton star as Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 after fatally shooting her abusive lover, David Blakely. Famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint carried out the death sentence at Holloway Prison in 1955. Deadline revealed the project in June.
BAFTA-winner Jones, who is also starring as a detective in ITV’s George Kay-penned drama about the Yorkshire Ripper, will play Ellis’ solicitor John Bickford,...
Vera producer Silverprint Pictures has rounded out cast on Ruth, with Laurie Davidson (Mary and George), Mark Stanley (Happy Valley), Joe Armstrong (Happy Valley), Arthur Darvill (Broadchurch), Juliet Stevenson and Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) also boarding.
Based on Carol Ann Lee’s biography A Fine Day For Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story, the show sees Boynton star as Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 after fatally shooting her abusive lover, David Blakely. Famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint carried out the death sentence at Holloway Prison in 1955. Deadline revealed the project in June.
BAFTA-winner Jones, who is also starring as a detective in ITV’s George Kay-penned drama about the Yorkshire Ripper, will play Ellis’ solicitor John Bickford,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton is to headline an ITV series about the last woman to hang in the UK.
Boynton will play Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 after fatally shooting her abusive lover David Blakely. Famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint carried out the death sentence at Holloway Prison in 1955.
The four-part series is made by ITV Studios-backed Vera producer Silverprint Pictures. It is written by Kelly Jones and based on Carol Ann Lee’s biography A Fine Day for Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story.
Ruth is told over two parallel timelines, with one half of the story following Ellis’ entry into a dizzying upper-class London and her ultimate downfall. The other follows John Bickford, Ellis’ lawyer, as he unravels secret truths about the case that remained hidden for decades.
Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon are the Executive Producers for Silverprint.
Boynton will play Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 after fatally shooting her abusive lover David Blakely. Famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint carried out the death sentence at Holloway Prison in 1955.
The four-part series is made by ITV Studios-backed Vera producer Silverprint Pictures. It is written by Kelly Jones and based on Carol Ann Lee’s biography A Fine Day for Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story.
Ruth is told over two parallel timelines, with one half of the story following Ellis’ entry into a dizzying upper-class London and her ultimate downfall. The other follows John Bickford, Ellis’ lawyer, as he unravels secret truths about the case that remained hidden for decades.
Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon are the Executive Producers for Silverprint.
- 6/13/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Sneaky, menacing and funny are descriptions that come up more than once in Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, but not one of the three words quite does justice to this irresistibly pitch-black comedy, opening tonight at the Golden Theatre on Broadway.
Then again, justice has very little to do with what goes on in this deliciously wicked tale of bloodstained propriety and revenge, state-sanctioned or otherwise. Set mostly in a Lancashire pub in the mid-1960s during the last days of England’s legal capital punishment, the Olivier Award-winning Hangmen resurrects not only an era of U.K. history but the playwright’s early fascination with very dark impulses.
And no one does dark impulses with as much comedic flare – yes, it’s sneaky, menacing and funny – as McDonagh at full tilt.
Directed with deadly assurance by Matthew Dunster,...
Then again, justice has very little to do with what goes on in this deliciously wicked tale of bloodstained propriety and revenge, state-sanctioned or otherwise. Set mostly in a Lancashire pub in the mid-1960s during the last days of England’s legal capital punishment, the Olivier Award-winning Hangmen resurrects not only an era of U.K. history but the playwright’s early fascination with very dark impulses.
And no one does dark impulses with as much comedic flare – yes, it’s sneaky, menacing and funny – as McDonagh at full tilt.
Directed with deadly assurance by Matthew Dunster,...
- 4/22/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
After his feature “Mindfulness and Murder” (2011), Thai director Tom Waller found his next project in the form of an obituary in a local newspaper. The announcement was about the death of Chavoret Jaruboon, something of a celebrity in Waller’s home country, since he was the last executioner carrying out death sentences via firing squad. When Thailand’s government abolished death by firing squad in 2003, Jaruboon also resigned. Since his formal appointment to the position in 1984, he had been responsible for 55 executions, all of which were carried out with him shooting the prisoner with a mounted machine gun. In the years until his death, he was a regular guest on TV shows and wrote books about his time as executioner.
Interestingly, the study of former executioners such as Jaruboon provides many noteworthy aspects for the discussion about the necessity of capital punishment in general. In an article about Albert Pierrepoint,...
Interestingly, the study of former executioners such as Jaruboon provides many noteworthy aspects for the discussion about the necessity of capital punishment in general. In an article about Albert Pierrepoint,...
- 8/10/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Timothy Spall stars in a fascinating, surprisingly non-morbid look into the life of Albert Pierrepoint, England’s reluctant celebrity hangman who dispatched hundreds of convicted killers, including Ruth Ellis and John Christie, not to mention 47 Nazi war criminals, in a literal marathon of the gallows. The artist of the noose kept up a double life to separate his execution duties from his domestic marriage … until General Montgomery blew his cover of anonymity. Eddie Marsan and Juliet Stevenson provide terrific acting support in this undeservedly obscure gem from director Adrian Shergold.
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Region B Blu-ray
Lionsgate (UK)
2005 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 91 95 min. / Pierrepoint; The Last Hangman / Available from Amazon UK or Amazon Us / Street Date December 7, 2009 /
Starring: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Clive Francis, Tobias Menzies.
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Film Editor: Tania Reddin
Original Music: Martin Phipps
Written by Bob Mills, Jeff Pope
Produced by Christine Langan
Directed...
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Region B Blu-ray
Lionsgate (UK)
2005 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 91 95 min. / Pierrepoint; The Last Hangman / Available from Amazon UK or Amazon Us / Street Date December 7, 2009 /
Starring: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Clive Francis, Tobias Menzies.
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Film Editor: Tania Reddin
Original Music: Martin Phipps
Written by Bob Mills, Jeff Pope
Produced by Christine Langan
Directed...
- 4/14/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The hangman Albert Pierrepoint (of Pierrepoint – The Last Hangman) makes a small but important appearance in Peter Medak’s 1991 film about the controversial 1953 execution of Derek Bentley for the murder of a policeman The film stars Christopher Eccleston as the doomed Bentley, Tom Courtenay as his father and a supporting cast featuring a who’s who of British character actors including Edward Hardwicke (Watson of BBC’s Sherlock Holmes), Michael Gough (Horror of Dracula) and Clive Revill (The Legend of Hell House) as the executioner Pierrepoint. Even though Bentley’s words ” Let him have it ” were ambiguous when the policeman demanded the shooter hand over the gun, the jury, under prejudicial instruction from the judge, decided the words meant “Shoot him!”
The post Let Him Have It appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
The post Let Him Have It appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 4/3/2020
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Timothy Spall stars in a fascinating character study about a compassionate executioner. Based on the true story of Albert Pierrepoint who presided over 400 hangings in England between 1932 and 1956 (including the Nazis tried at Nuremberg), Pierrepoint was considered England’s most prolific hangman as well as its most humane (taking care to finish the job as swiftly as possible). In his 1974 memoir Executioner: Pierrepoint, the then 69 year-old ex-executioner disavowed the death penalty as a plausible deterrent.
The post Pierrepoint – The Last Hangman appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
The post Pierrepoint – The Last Hangman appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 4/1/2020
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Crooks and lawyers this week on Trailers From Hell. What’s the difference, you may ask? Lawyers drink better wine. Let’s see if we can find a good match for this week’s featured flicks.
2007’s Michael Clayton was nominated for seven Oscars, and it would have been eight had there been a category for Worst Title. Lawyer Clayton cleans up his clients’ messes, referring to himself as a janitor. He is played by George Clooney, who looks like he knows his way around a wine list but does not look anything like a janitor. In the wine biz, a lawyer would handle permits, labels, sales and acquisitions – not exactly the stuff of cinematic legend.
Since it takes so much scratch to buy a winery, mostly lawyers and doctors retire to vineyards. Let’s drink to Law Estate Winery of Paso Robles, owned by Don and Susie Law. Their...
2007’s Michael Clayton was nominated for seven Oscars, and it would have been eight had there been a category for Worst Title. Lawyer Clayton cleans up his clients’ messes, referring to himself as a janitor. He is played by George Clooney, who looks like he knows his way around a wine list but does not look anything like a janitor. In the wine biz, a lawyer would handle permits, labels, sales and acquisitions – not exactly the stuff of cinematic legend.
Since it takes so much scratch to buy a winery, mostly lawyers and doctors retire to vineyards. Let’s drink to Law Estate Winery of Paso Robles, owned by Don and Susie Law. Their...
- 3/31/2020
- by Randy Fuller
- Trailers from Hell
LONDON -- London to Brighton, directed by Paul Andrew Williams, scooped the top prize at the close of the 17th annual Dinard Festival of British Film, which ended Sunday in the Northern French resort of Brittany, organizers said. Brighton, which tells the story of a 12-year-old runaway and a prostitute, picked up Dinard's Golden Hitchcock award after the jury, presided over by French actor Francois Berleand, chose the winner. Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint, starring Timothy Spall as real-life British hangman Albert Pierrepoint, took the Silver Hitchcock award, voted on by local moviegoers, as well as the Kodak Prize for cinematography. The Grand Marnier screenplay award went to Noel Clarke, who penned the script for Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood, which details the story of British high school kids at an inner-city school. Andrea Arnold's Red Road took home the event's Heartbeat nod, awarded by a group of French distributors who will release the winner in all their theaters -- approximately 40 cinemas in the Brittany region. Road star Kate Dickie was on hand to accept the award.
- 10/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.