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Guillotine's quick, I'd wager Guillotine's quick but guillotine's messy and French Who'd go for that in Durham? No one And who's going to clean up the mess after?
Heads bouncing round I'm not going to clean it up after.
Warders? They've enough on their plates, poor sods So how many men have you hanged, Harry?
Give me a rough estimate I pride myself on never having
deigned that question with an answer, Derek, and I shall stick to that deigning More than a hundred?
- Loads more More than a thousand?
- Don't be daft, this in't China More than Pierrepoint?
Heads bouncing round I'm not going to clean it up after.
Warders? They've enough on their plates, poor sods So how many men have you hanged, Harry?
Give me a rough estimate I pride myself on never having
deigned that question with an answer, Derek, and I shall stick to that deigning More than a hundred?
- Loads more More than a thousand?
- Don't be daft, this in't China More than Pierrepoint?
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Guillotine's quick, I'd wager
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Guillotine's quick but guillotine's messy and French
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Who'd go for that in Durham? No one
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And who's going to clean up the mess after?
Heads bouncing round
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I'm not going to clean it up after.
Warders? They've enough on their plates, poor sods
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So how many men have you hanged, Harry?
Give me a rough estimate
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I pride myself on never having
deigned that question with an answer, Derek,
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and I shall stick to that deigning
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More than a hundred?
- Loads more
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More than a thousand?
- Don't be daft, this in't China
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More than Pierrepoint?
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Movie Summary
In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd and the peculiar Mooney lurk with very different motives for their visit.
