Dark Angel (TV Miniseries)
2016 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
TV Miniseries (2016). 2 Episodes. Britain’s first serial killer ended her 20-year poisoning spree in 1873, thrashing around at the end of a hangman’s rope in Durham Jail. When the gallows trapdoor opened, Mary Ann Cotton dropped just two feet, a fall insufficient to break her neck. The hangman leant over and pushed down on her shoulders to hasten strangulation. She took several minutes to die. There was little sympathy for Cotton. Convicted of the murder of her seven-year old stepson, she was suspected of killing with arsenic as many as 20 others – including her mother, several of her children and stepchildren, three husbands, a lover and a friend.
Direction Brian Percival
Cast Joanne Froggatt · Jonas Armstrong · Paul Brennen · Alun Armstrong · Gioacchino Jim Cuffaro · Emma Fielding · Sam Hoare · Thomas Howes · George Kent · Isla McMonigle · Laura Frances-Morgan · John Hollingworth · John Bowler · Seamus O'Neill · Bill Fellows · Michael Culkin
Soundtrack Michael J. McEvoy
Screenplay Gwyneth Hughes · David Wilson
Cinematography Larry Smith
Original title Dark Angel
6.1
373 votes (FilmAffinity)
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