The Mad Axeman

• Cast: Diarmaid Murtagh, Morgan Watkins, Elen Rhys
• Director: William Kerley
• Screenplay: Gill Adams
• Director of Photography: Luke Jacobs
• Music: Blair Jollands
• Producer: Rebecca Long
• Running time: 106 minutes

William Kerley’s debut feature film is based on the true story of Frank Mitchell, a career criminal who escaped from Dartmoor Prison with the help of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, Britain’s most infamous gangsters, ten days prior to Christmas 1966. Whilst a national manhunt ensued, Mitchell was hiding out in East London with a minder and hostess for company – and finding this new imprisonment increasingly intolerable. ‘The Mad Axeman’ is a gripping suspense crime drama.

Trailer

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