Actor did a great job of portraying a frightened man faced with his own imminent death, his thoughts disjointed and all over the place. Brilliant movie.
Expect he portrayed a botched hanging. The knot breaks your neck and the noose in the movie was made correctly so that prolonged death wouldn't have happened. His neck would have snapped and it would have been instant lights out. If you want to see what a real hanging looks like, go watch the hanging of Saddam Hussein. You will see as soon as they drop they are dead. The way he died in the movie is what would have happened if they didn't make a noose and just tied a rope around his neck. But other then that, your right. His acting was phenomenal
The real execution took 11 minutes for him to die. His knees gave way and he began to collapse as the executioner pulled the lever to open the doors on the floor. This caused all slack of the rope to be removed and the fall to be too short to cause a break in his neck.
When he said "someone say a prayer for me" and it was just quite, complete silence and they put the bag over his head you could really sense his fear, he knew if there was a afterlife he wasn't going to heaven
@@alanstevens1296 What do you mean? You can say a prayer for someone without being vocal. The priest could have prayed for him and not made it vocal, which would have upset those present. Yikes.
@@tethryss5001 Northcott was obviously unrepentant and arrogantly so. Why didn't he get saved? The reverend nodded and smiled at him . . . he looked like a liberal churchman.
Oh well if you believe the fairytales, he is up in the magic castle with Jesus. If he prayed for forgiveness and repented his sins. Read it up in the magic book called Bible. And all those who never did any harm and maybe snatched a chewing gum or two, they are swimming forever in a pool of lava with goblins poking them with. If they never prayed and did not believe the fairytales. Oh and the fairytales about heaven and hell was invented by Sumerians or Etruscans i think, many thousands of years ago. Hilarious that some people still believe that stuff :D
In real life, it took 13 long minutes for Northcott to die. The rope was too slack, so as a result instead of dying instantly due to a broken neck, he died of suffocation.
I love that around 2:17, when he is begging for someone to say a prayer in his name, the priest seems almost indifferent after smiling to him at the beginning, because not even him, a man of God, can bring himself to have any pity for a child rapist and killer, is such a subtle yet great detail
@@hamilcross absolutely no, just strictly in the fictional context of this movie, in the sense that a character that would be stereotypically righteous, pious, and merciful towards criminals because of their vocation, and would probably say a prayer for any other sinner out there, draws the line at pedo child murderer. Gordon in his hour of death tries to talk to him for comfort as he had done before, and the priest just smiles at him, but when Gordon is begin for someone to pray for him, he doesn’t even bother, he even looks annoyed because he was disgusted by him from the very beginning, is just smart subtle writing that may fly over peoples head, the type of “show don’t tell”
"In the end, Northcott’s bravado failed him. On October 2, 1930, he was led to the gibbet, whimpering and blindfolded because he said he could not stand to view the gallows. He collapsed as he was taken from the death cell and had to be supported by two guards.
His final words as the black hood and noose were put over his head were “don’t, don’t.”
The last bit of poetic justice came right before the executioner pulled the trap lever. Northcott’s legs gave way and he began to collapse just as the trap sprang. His collapse took the slack out of the rope, and as a result his fall was too short to snap his neck.
Good, I have no sympathy at all for child abusers! I only wish I knew the name of this movie so I could watch it and clap when the pos fell to his death.
Those of you who are wondering why he was executed, he kidnapped little kids, held them in a chicken coop, and then killed them by beating them with an axe. He also forced his little nephew to help him, or else he would get killed as well. I saw the movie, it's really sad yet interesting.
Wonderful performance from the actor. Northcott was a monster and deserved to feel all that panic and pain he put his victims through just before his painful, miserable and most likely terrifying end.
I say he deserved worse but, it's not humanly possible to deal with people like this the way they deserve to be dealt with. At least they got him outta here, though. That's the most you can ask for sometimes.
This was a crime for which only the death penalty was the most appropriate sentence; 20 boys sexually abused, held captive before being brutally murdered.
@@Gartneren1234 I think for the heinous crimes he committed if the penalty was not a death sentence then let him just spend the rest of his days in a small cell like Steve McQueen had to endure in the movie Papillon. And never let him out. That 8 foot by 5 foot cell will be his whole world. Drive him to madness.
@@Gartneren1234 nah he deserved it imo. The kids he murdered would have begged for their lives as he tortured them and they died in the most painful ways imaginable. How they took their last gasps of air, having their lives stolen from this world. They would never see their families again, never get to see their friends again, never get to see the beautiful outside world. He deserved the death penalty. Hope he cried and begged for his lives like his victims did whom were mainly children. Hope he suffered and cried for more oxygen. Sounds bad but, he deserved it. His victims never got to breath again and died in agony. Good thing he did too.
My mom made me watch this as a kid to hit home the lesson of not getting in a car with strangers & stranger danger. Well, 11 years later I can say it did the trick. I watched this at 10, and was almost kidnapped at 12 on my way to school one morning. Fortunately I remembered this horrific movie & did exactly as I was told when confronted with a stranger.
sometimes i feel like all little kids should be equiped with a panic vutton in their pockets and hidden gps..i mean its doable with the technology we got.
My parents always drilled into us the importance of staying safe. They almost never let me out of their sight. Mostly cause I was almost kidnapped when I was maybe 5 or younger. I don't remember too too much really, but it's a dangerous world out there.
+kingsol767 In Northcott's case, it wasn't. As a result, he suffered an unnecessarily cruel death. Death by the State should be clean and quick. This was a travesty.
Gryphon Studios molesting and murdering a innocent child who can not defend themselves who can call themselves human after those horrendous acts he deserved to be tortured. So yes death was well deserved
Bryant Paradine you are not GOD you cannot never say who should die or not he should be in prison for life and prison is not a good place to be and the nasty food the inmates and not having any control over yourself and being their got the rest of your life is worst than death and death is a easy way out
It's so sad. This movie is based on a true story and the mother never stopped looking for her son. She just dissipated and died alone. There was evidence that they found his hair/bones at the crime scene along with other victimes but she refused to believe any of it. Such a heartbreaking story.
*This mother let her son go to the movies by himself?* That wasn't unheard of in those days. Marilyn Monroe, who spent her childhood in foster homes in and around Los Angeles, was often left at the movie theater by her foster parents, while they went to work or whatever.
Now THAT is gallows humor, or humour I should say since it's also classic English dry wit. Great flick w Sir Richard Attenborough as Christie and John Hurt as the simpleton who was hanged an innocent man for one of Christie's victims. Man, this is a gut wrenching scene. Props to that actor--I was feeling that one.
Facts your heart is just beating like crazy and there’s a black hood over your head and your just dreading the drop! I believe the drop is the most terrible of hanging methods.
@@WilDBeestMF The drop breaks the spinal cord at the C2/C3 vertebrae, resulting in a broken neck. If done right, there is no pain at all even though the heart beats on for a few minutes more. The hanged person is already brain dead.
And took 13 minutes for him to die, rope is meant to snap your vertebrae but the hangman (more than likely on purpose) botched the know so he'd have a slow death suffocating
Same here except it started because of a youtube video I made which led to reddit which led to a bunch of wikipedias on torture, executions, religious organizations, and all stuff related to that and now i'm here...
In the end we, as civil people, seem to forget that the pain and suffering that these monsters inflict on innocent people are so much worse than the death that society gives them.
When I saw the thumbnail and recognized where it was from my stomach sank and my heart clenched, how horrible it was to witness such a monstrosity at such a young age, I didn’t think I’d ever see a piece of this movie again even after a decade or so
Was this scene really that disturbing for everyone? I kind of enjoyed it, of course because it's not real, but also because Green Mile already desentisized me from this kind of stuff.
@@BrunoHartmann- Yup, once you see Green Mile as a little kid, this movie is a walk in the park. I'd take a long drop hanging over what happened to Del ANY day of the year. XD
@@ARedMagicMarkerman same here! Although the camera angle of seeing the noose as he's being led right to it is a bit freaky from a psychological standpoint. And I definitely had a shudder as he twitched. But yes, Green Mile was far more brutal!
I can understand the victim's mother wanting to be there, because of him, she was wrongly declared insane and put in a psychiatric hospital and her son was murdered.
Crime against children is the most heinous of all crimes. Any person who commits such crime has no right to live in this world. This guy killed a lot of children and I can't even comprehend the trauma their parents must have gone through when they found out their children were killed by this monster. This is really heart breaking. Unfortunately, children are still kidnapped and murdered in this day and age. The parents of small children should teach them not to talk to strangers.
Unfortunately a child is far more likely to get hurt by someone they know than a stranger. Not saying they should trust blindly, but they should be aware that a stranger isn’t the only danger.
If a hanging is done correctly, the spinal cord is severed, there's only one twitch of the body and that's it. The vertebral arteries supplying the brainstem are torn, so loss of consciousness is immediate. It can take quite a few minutes for the heart to stop though.
That in itself is not strange. The heart always continues to beat for up to 20 mins after a long drop hanging, even if it has gone properly and the neck breaks and the prisoner is unconscious. You know you've screwed up if the prisoner is moving for the whole time though!
According to Wikipedia: "The rope used for the execution was too slack to cause breakage of the neck, and it took thirteen minutes for him to die from strangulation." I'd bet anything that slack wasn't an accident..... 😉
This is a similar case to a hanging that happened in yemen 2003. A little 17 year old girl called Habiba Ibrahim who was convicted of killing a high ranking officer who attempted to rape her. She sentenced hang by her neck until dead. On her execution day, she begged the guards to show her mercy. The guards dragged her from her cell to the gibbet. She was screaming and crying as the guards pushed her up to the noose. It was not clear what her last words were, but it was said as the hood was placed on her head she uttered "Please don't hang me!". When the noose was tied round her neck, she reportedly began singing the Yemeni national anthem, she thought she could save her neck. But her last ditch attempt had failed, she was dropped at 1:05 pm. It was reported the noose was too short and the was only 2 feet. As a result the execution was severely bungled as Habiba struggled against the rope gasping for air. She kicked and writhed in pain for a whole 14 minutes when she finally expired on 1:15 pm. This goes to show how bad dictatorships are.
@@youssefabdelaal434 You know that's a relatively good reason why the death penalty should be used for some cases. It's the only way to deal with corrupt leaders. There are cruel and evil people in positions of power. She did not deserve to die because of their evil. They do.
samsquanch1996 .. Yeah, too bad you didn't see the "fucking incredible acting" of his victims - young boys between the ages of 9 and 12 abducted, tortured, raped, bludgeoned, decapitated, and dismembered. The media/liberals work hard to make us feel sorry for the criminals, ignoring the victims.
It was chilling when he began singing "Silent Night," particularly because the last words he sings are "mother and child" just as the trap-door opens and he falls through to his death. This is significant, because the entire movie was about a mother's search for her missing child, who may have been a victim of this man.
Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin, mother and child Holy Infant, so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace
@@youssefabdelaal434 and died. Death by hanging makes a great climatic comeback for a villain who abducts little boys. He got what he deserves. Sorry Gordon you don't deserve to go to heaven cause Hell is where you'll belong, you have been warned! Oh Youssef nice job 👍 Love it!
And what about all the cries and screams he elicited from all the bucking Children he killed, he bucking deserved it, "D-DON'T M-MAKE M-MEE W-WAALLLKKKK S-SOOO F-FAST!!!😭" B¡⁷CH HOW DARE YOU BEG FOR MERCY AND NOT TO BE RUSHED TO YOUR DEATH, I BET ALL THE KIDS YOU MURDERED BEGGED THE SAME WAY YOU DID, and how dare you beg for a prayer of forgiveness, where you're going there is no hope or prayer of Salvation!!!🤬😤😒
Nikhil John When they were describing the case I recalled this movie, but it was vague until searched up his name. This movie scared me so much when I was younger ;-;
This is what murderers and pedophiles deserve... people say "they don't suffer from the death penalty"... no, they live the last moments of their disgusting lives in fear and terror, as all men fear death. Those last moments of psychological torture is punishment that could never be served in a comfortable prison life.
I remember in 1971, in Ireland, a car stopping near my home and the driver asked my sister, two years my senior, to get in his vehicle. I was about to do so when my sister stopped me. I was 7 years old. I have shutter to think about what would have happened had I been alone that day and entered that vehicle...
This movie is 10/10. Clint Eastwood is a great director, J. Michael Straczynski is a great screenwriter and Angelina Jolie is a great actress. And Jason Butler Harner, who played Gordon Northcott, is also a great actor.
My mom showed me this movie when I was very young many years ago. It scarred me for many many years. I never found the movie again until today, when I just right now stumbled upon it. Not as scary as it used to be to me, but the fact that it’s based off a true story is still frightening to me.
I wish they wouldn't give killer's a time of their life in jail with free WiFi now which is really stupidly dumb and that ain't teaching them what they did for there crimes
The planned killing of a human being is never a "good" thing. At best, it can be a necessary thing. But never something for a good person to celebrate.
Streicher's last words before hsnging were"No! No! Aaaaaaaiiiiiieeeee!"; the hsngman, Pierrepoint. Said "He died like thr coward we all knew that he was"; even the othet Nazis despised him.
Very Nice theres a difference between saying someone is worthless to humanity because they cant stop killing kids and because they're IQ isnt high enough or because they're gay or Jewish or whatever else the nazis hated
Baymax The Robot it was a reference to the fact that this guy used chicken coops to kill small children in & hide the bodies!!, Do some history reading before trying to troll.
Toadstool which is TOAD-ally awesome it was a reference to the fact that this guy used chicken coops to kill small children in & hide the bodies!!, Do some history reading before trying to troll. or at least read the other comments first ..smh
If you look from Wiki: " The rope used for the execution was too slack to cause breakage of the neck, and it took thirteen minutes for him to die from strangulation."
I wondered what was uttered before he went upstairs, after watching this movie for years, i just got what was said. The most chilling words to me of this scene, and the irony in them.... "will it hurt"?? After ravaging the lives of innocent young boys, he asks "will it hurt" . Even if it wasn't actually said by the real Gordon Northcott, this scene is brilliant in the way they portray him.
Yup you could tell he was terrified Sweating it 😳😥 he Soo didn't want to be left Hanging till All the way Dead he was screaming when he drops Awww NOOO 😵 then kicking around gagging mostly Hoping OMG PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME DOWN 😵💀 lol but Noo Sir your Hanging till Dead anyways LOL and he kinda Deserves every second wouldn't you agree?
According to a news article from this time, he actually DID say that in real life. As his hands were being strapped he asked "will it hurt?" He also in real life screamed "please pray for me" just before the drop. Even the "walking fast" part was said in real life as he was being forced up the stairs.
The scene depicts a very accurate portrayal of the actual event. Even then, they filmed executions for the record. But these are NOT made public!!! I do wonder if someone got a look at that film. After all, approximately 80 years had passed since the execution. (Just my thoughts.)
“Please don’t make me walk so fast!” I say that everyday to my treadmill
U funny
@Alistair the radio demon how old are you?
@Alistair the radio demon i asked how old you are because you said you fucked.....
Jeez........
You and your insane girlfriend are crazy
@Alistair the radio demon your welcom you nutshell
@@youssefabdelaal434 what does sth mean?!
Got to give my props to the actor who had to play this evil man for this movie.
Do you know who played him
Yeh I think he should be paid Double or even triple
He was also a great detective in Ozark.
Brandon Marquez
Dude literally stop, nobody asked for that
Mike TeeVee he can say whatever he wants
Actor did a great job of portraying a frightened man faced with his own imminent death, his thoughts disjointed and all over the place. Brilliant movie.
Jason Butler Harner is a top tier actor. Watch Ozarks if you like his work.
Expect he portrayed a botched hanging. The knot breaks your neck and the noose in the movie was made correctly so that prolonged death wouldn't have happened. His neck would have snapped and it would have been instant lights out. If you want to see what a real hanging looks like, go watch the hanging of Saddam Hussein. You will see as soon as they drop they are dead. The way he died in the movie is what would have happened if they didn't make a noose and just tied a rope around his neck. But other then that, your right. His acting was phenomenal
The real execution took 11 minutes for him to die. His knees gave way and he began to collapse as the executioner pulled the lever to open the doors on the floor. This caused all slack of the rope to be removed and the fall to be too short to cause a break in his neck.
You mean it was a shot drop not a long drop.
@@forgetfulpriestiv14 This execution irl was botched, so the movie is correct with its portrayal.
When he said "someone say a prayer for me" and it was just quite, complete silence and they put the bag over his head you could really sense his fear, he knew if there was a afterlife he wasn't going to heaven
@@alanstevens1296 What do you mean?
You can say a prayer for someone without being vocal.
The priest could have prayed for him and not made it vocal, which would have upset those present.
Yikes.
@@tethryss5001
Northcott was obviously unrepentant and arrogantly so. Why didn't he get saved? The reverend nodded and smiled at him . . . he looked like a liberal churchman.
Oh well if you believe the fairytales, he is up in the magic castle with Jesus. If he prayed for forgiveness and repented his sins. Read it up in the magic book called Bible.
And all those who never did any harm and maybe snatched a chewing gum or two, they are swimming forever in a pool of lava with goblins poking them with. If they never prayed and did not believe the fairytales.
Oh and the fairytales about heaven and hell was invented by Sumerians or Etruscans i think, many thousands of years ago. Hilarious that some people still believe that stuff :D
@@pipenissen4393
Northcott is wailing and gnashing his teeth right now in Hell.
@@pipenissen4393
His body stopped suddenly but his soul kept on going straight down to Hell.
"In their last moments,people show who they really are."
Kisame?
Afraid
Not true, they could be pretending in hopes of mercy
He already shown who he really was, thats why he got hanged 😅
Well he was scared of walking fast
Remember kids, never commit crimes
I wont Mr. loaf. XD
I would hate to go through this
Yes sir Mr meat loaf and what is this year's lesson
Don’t commit murder*
iiSkittl3s I would hate it too
Yep
In real life, it took 13 long minutes for Northcott to die. The rope was too slack, so as a result instead of dying instantly due to a broken neck, he died of suffocation.
Great!!!
Honestly what he deserves. I bet you $10 that was done on purpose so he would suffer like those kids
You don’t die due to a broken neck when hanged bruh
People break their necks all the time, it’s no
Blood flow to the brain
@ClairRyan-xz4he It wasn't on purpose. At the very past second his legs gave out just, so all he did was make his end more painful
I love that around 2:17, when he is begging for someone to say a prayer in his name, the priest seems almost indifferent after smiling to him at the beginning, because not even him, a man of God, can bring himself to have any pity for a child rapist and killer, is such a subtle yet great detail
are you suggesting that priests don't commit sexual violence against children? because if that's the case, BOY do I have some news for you... lmfao
@@hamilcross absolutely no, just strictly in the fictional context of this movie, in the sense that a character that would be stereotypically righteous, pious, and merciful towards criminals because of their vocation, and would probably say a prayer for any other sinner out there, draws the line at pedo child murderer. Gordon in his hour of death tries to talk to him for comfort as he had done before, and the priest just smiles at him, but when Gordon is begin for someone to pray for him, he doesn’t even bother, he even looks annoyed because he was disgusted by him from the very beginning, is just smart subtle writing that may fly over peoples head, the type of “show don’t tell”
The priest didn't do his job -- he was probably another liberal churchman.
An animal doesnt need a prayer before they get killed anyway.
Wtf was a priest even doing there if he wasn’t going to pray for him?
"In the end, Northcott’s bravado failed him. On October 2, 1930, he was led to the gibbet, whimpering and blindfolded because he said he could not stand to view the gallows. He collapsed as he was taken from the death cell and had to be supported by two guards.
His final words as the black hood and noose were put over his head were “don’t, don’t.”
The last bit of poetic justice came right before the executioner pulled the trap lever. Northcott’s legs gave way and he began to collapse just as the trap sprang. His collapse took the slack out of the rope, and as a result his fall was too short to snap his neck.
It took him 11 minutes to strangle to death."
@Gryphon Studios dumbass this is from the newspaper describing the execution
@@youssefabdelaal434 Psycho's last defense: BE HUMANE!!!!!!!!
Good, I have no sympathy at all for child abusers! I only wish I knew the name of this movie so I could watch it and clap when the pos fell to his death.
@@sevinstorey4365 The film is Changeling. Released in 2008. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
AWESOME
Those of you who are wondering why he was executed, he kidnapped little kids, held them in a chicken coop, and then killed them by beating them with an axe. He also forced his little nephew to help him, or else he would get killed as well. I saw the movie, it's really sad yet interesting.
Very late, but he also r aped them.
@@eightykakes15 5 years late
@@shroomgod1990 Hey, you can count. I’m proud son.
@@eightykakes15 lmao that was a good comeback ngl
@@eightykakes15 tool
Wonderful performance from the actor. Northcott was a monster and deserved to feel all that panic and pain he put his victims through just before his painful, miserable and most likely terrifying end.
I say he deserved worse but, it's not humanly possible to deal with people like this the way they deserve to be dealt with.
At least they got him outta here, though. That's the most you can ask for sometimes.
This is one of the most brilliantly acted scenes in any movie I've ever seen. Jason Butler Harner was absolutely awesome.
This was a crime for which only the death penalty was the most appropriate sentence; 20 boys sexually abused, held captive before being brutally murdered.
Nah, death is way too much of an easy way out. I can think of a hell lot more deserving means of punishment for the kind of crimes this guy committed.
@Targaryen Dynasty nah I would rather see him rot to death slowly
@@Gartneren1234 I think for the heinous crimes he committed if the penalty was not a death sentence then let him just spend the rest of his days in a small cell like Steve McQueen had to endure in the movie Papillon. And never let him out. That 8 foot by 5 foot cell will be his whole world. Drive him to madness.
@box of boxes wood chipper
@@Gartneren1234 nah he deserved it imo. The kids he murdered would have begged for their lives as he tortured them and they died in the most painful ways imaginable. How they took their last gasps of air, having their lives stolen from this world. They would never see their families again, never get to see their friends again, never get to see the beautiful outside world.
He deserved the death penalty. Hope he cried and begged for his lives like his victims did whom were mainly children. Hope he suffered and cried for more oxygen.
Sounds bad but, he deserved it. His victims never got to breath again and died in agony. Good thing he did too.
Those who beg for mercy never give it. Have you notice that.
Yeah, it’s like they expect that they will somehow get out of that situation.
Chantel Onfroy, the movie, based of a actual execution.
Bullshits. Australopithecus american
Outdoor life gave*
No shit Sherlock
Jason B Harner absolutely nailed this scene. He really made a monster feel real and intimidating in this film. Absolute Talent! 10/10
In this case the death penalty is truly warranted. Anyone that tortured and raped children should go exactly this way.
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My mom made me watch this as a kid to hit home the lesson of not getting in a car with strangers & stranger danger. Well, 11 years later I can say it did the trick. I watched this at 10, and was almost kidnapped at 12 on my way to school one morning. Fortunately I remembered this horrific movie & did exactly as I was told when confronted with a stranger.
sometimes i feel like all little kids should be equiped with a panic vutton in their pockets and hidden gps..i mean its doable with the technology we got.
Glad my mom brainwashed me at a young age of stranger danger
I don't know you but glad you didn't become a victim. Have a good day.
My parents always drilled into us the importance of staying safe. They almost never let me out of their sight. Mostly cause I was almost kidnapped when I was maybe 5 or younger. I don't remember too too much really, but it's a dangerous world out there.
S A M E
THIS IS BRILLIANT ACTING, A TRULY FRIGHTENING PERFORMANCE
A bit of an over dramatized. This includes the execution as the drop should have been sufficient to break the neck.
+kingsol767 should have been, not always.
+kingsol767 In Northcott's case, it wasn't. As a result, he suffered an unnecessarily cruel death. Death by the State should be clean and quick. This was a travesty.
+Andrew Fyall he deserved it northcott was a real sicko
yes but I mean the acting
He actually wore a bandana covering his eyes when he made that walk because he was so scared. He was the only one to ever do so.
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@@Oran_Fitzwhat ? How so?
@@Cameron-mw5cr idk, youtube just made me give my opinion on the comment
He deserved an Oscar for this movie!! Great actor!
Northcott was real. So were his victims. Deserved.
Gryphon Studios molesting and murdering a innocent child who can not defend themselves who can call themselves human after those horrendous acts he deserved to be tortured. So yes death was well deserved
Alistair the radio demon gotta love how you shoehorn liberalism into this. He never said he looked up to the guy nor fawned over him.
@Gryphon Studios cry harder.
@Gryphon Studios i hope you go to hell if you find killing innocent children is okay
Bryant Paradine you are not GOD you cannot never say who should die or not he should be in prison for life and prison is not a good place to be and the nasty food the inmates and not having any control over yourself and being their got the rest of your life is worst than death and death is a easy way out
It's so sad. This movie is based on a true story and the mother never stopped looking for her son. She just dissipated and died alone. There was evidence that they found his hair/bones at the crime scene along with other victimes but she refused to believe any of it. Such a heartbreaking story.
Georgia B but as the preacher said, he was waiting for her. And when she saw him again, she knew it was him.
Georgia B would you let your son buy a match box from the kiosk next to your place? This mother let her son go to the movies by himself?
It's not sad, that hanging was so fun
*This mother let her son go to the movies by himself?*
That wasn't unheard of in those days. Marilyn Monroe, who spent her childhood in foster homes in and around Los Angeles, was often left at the movie theater by her foster parents, while they went to work or whatever.
I feel bad for him
One things for sure, he’ll never do it again.
Great acting. I can practically Smell the Fear.
John Christie's last words were "the rope is itching my neck", Albert Pierrepoint replied "don't worry it won't last long".
There's a good movie about Pierrpoint I'd like to watch. Very interesting man.
Nose * you lying fuck.
numbersix100 it's very good, seen it recently
Now THAT is gallows humor, or humour I should say since it's also classic English dry wit. Great flick w Sir Richard Attenborough as Christie and John Hurt as the simpleton who was hanged an innocent man for one of Christie's victims. Man, this is a gut wrenching scene. Props to that actor--I was feeling that one.
Possibly the most accurate depiction of a British hanging: czcams.com/video/MvQ7Ff4i38w/video.html
The scary part is that u never know when u gonna drop down
Facts your heart is just beating like crazy and there’s a black hood over your head and your just dreading the drop! I believe the drop is the most terrible of hanging methods.
@@aseamin1089 Straight facts
Like when you're on an older drop waterslide just waiting for the inevitable moment of the trapdoor falling beneath you
@@aseamin1089 Are you going to tell me that the upward jerk is better? Yeah sure, let's just rip their head clean off.
@@WilDBeestMF The drop breaks the spinal cord at the C2/C3 vertebrae, resulting in a broken neck. If done right, there is no pain at all even though the heart beats on for a few minutes more. The hanged person is already brain dead.
I know it's a serious scene but that "woo" at 3:18 gets me every time
Not sure if it was "woo" or "owww" or "uhhh" or just a little shriek.
Either way, it did sound funny.
Then the "Ghaack Sound"
Fall guys
He said "nooo"
Sympathy for his victims. No sympathy for Northcott.
apparently this is the way the real Northcutt was acting when he was getting lead up to the rope...still a coward right up to his last moments.
Because he was afraid to die?
@@mutteringmale the guy was just a coward period
*getting led
And took 13 minutes for him to die, rope is meant to snap your vertebrae but the hangman (more than likely on purpose) botched the know so he'd have a slow death suffocating
@@mutteringmale he wasnt afraid of taking other innocent peoples lives.
I fell down the youtube rabbit hole again.......
Same here except it started because of a youtube video I made which led to reddit which led to a bunch of wikipedias on torture, executions, religious organizations, and all stuff related to that and now i'm here...
you're here too aren't you?
so many hangings 😂
Mattias Berggren see, that's why you can't shoot for shit because you kept screwing around on CZcams when you were supposed to be at target practice
Mattias Berggren same im 10 why am I here like if u agree
In the end we, as civil people, seem to forget that the pain and suffering that these monsters inflict on innocent people are so much worse than the death that society gives them.
When I saw the thumbnail and recognized where it was from my stomach sank and my heart clenched, how horrible it was to witness such a monstrosity at such a young age, I didn’t think I’d ever see a piece of this movie again even after a decade or so
This sicko deserved it though
He murdered children and they’re arguably the worst of humanity
Was this scene really that disturbing for everyone? I kind of enjoyed it, of course because it's not real, but also because Green Mile already desentisized me from this kind of stuff.
@@BrunoHartmann- Yup, once you see Green Mile as a little kid, this movie is a walk in the park. I'd take a long drop hanging over what happened to Del ANY day of the year. XD
@@ARedMagicMarkerman same here! Although the camera angle of seeing the noose as he's being led right to it is a bit freaky from a psychological standpoint. And I definitely had a shudder as he twitched. But yes, Green Mile was far more brutal!
The acting is amazing in this movie
I can understand the victim's mother wanting to be there, because of him, she was wrongly declared insane and put in a psychiatric hospital and her son was murdered.
Her son was not murdered.The society has protected itself from such a waste of oxygen.He is not a human,but,rather,some humanoid creature.
Frances Sweeney was talking about the child who that man murderd
Oh...I`m extremly sorry and I bring my sincerest apologies.I misread it and I didn`t mean anything.
It’s okay his or her sentence was confusing
Frances Sweeney Thats the point, she wanted to watch him die, for that very reason.
"I didn't touch them all"
Like that makes it any better.
Very sad story, I watched this movie as a young kid and this scene along with the escape scene have always stuck with me.
Fun Fact: it took Gordon Northcott 11 min to die
Amen
seegrub62 Epic Gamer Moment!
Must have been painful
@Emperor Vitiate edgy
Not long enough.
This is really great piece of acting by Jason Butler Harner. This scene totally wrenches my soul.
I enjoyed every second of it...watching a lousy bastard go down hard!
jason butley
He was great on Homeland.
He plays the role of a deranged FBI agent in the Ozarks to perfection.
I’ve seen him in other things. He can play a creep very good
Crime against children is the most heinous of all crimes. Any person who commits such crime has no right to live in this world. This guy killed a lot of children and I can't even comprehend the trauma their parents must have gone through when they found out their children were killed by this monster. This is really heart breaking. Unfortunately, children are still kidnapped and murdered in this day and age. The parents of small children should teach them not to talk to strangers.
Unfortunately a child is far more likely to get hurt by someone they know than a stranger. Not saying they should trust blindly, but they should be aware that a stranger isn’t the only danger.
If a hanging is done correctly, the spinal cord is severed, there's only one twitch of the body and that's it.
The vertebral arteries supplying the brainstem are torn, so loss of consciousness is immediate.
It can take quite a few minutes for the heart to stop though.
Fun fact: Doctor heard his heartbeat and they left him to die. That took 10 minutes
Amen
That in itself is not strange. The heart always continues to beat for up to 20 mins after a long drop hanging, even if it has gone properly and the neck breaks and the prisoner is unconscious. You know you've screwed up if the prisoner is moving for the whole time though!
Fair enough
@Esoteric Valentine yes that is true
@@downlink5877 California screwed up enough hangings that they switched to the gas chamber a few years later.
PLEASE DON’T MAKE Me WALK SO FAST!
Guard: Come on dude don’t be selfish. Some of us have lives to get back to
Ooh. Clever word usage.
Thank for the laugh
Ironic he never got to finish his song. The next words were Sleep In Heavenly Peace.
Fucking Game Thrones is coming on in like 8 minutes, douche bag!
I enjoyed seeing him cry and beg.
According to Wikipedia: "The rope used for the execution was too slack to cause breakage of the neck, and it took thirteen minutes for him to die from strangulation." I'd bet anything that slack wasn't an accident..... 😉
This is a similar case to a hanging that happened in yemen 2003. A little 17 year old girl called Habiba Ibrahim who was convicted of killing a high ranking officer who attempted to rape her. She sentenced hang by her neck until dead. On her execution day, she begged the guards to show her mercy. The guards dragged her from her cell to the gibbet. She was screaming and crying as the guards pushed her up to the noose. It was not clear what her last words were, but it was said as the hood was placed on her head she uttered "Please don't hang me!". When the noose was tied round her neck, she reportedly began singing the Yemeni national anthem, she thought she could save her neck. But her last ditch attempt had failed, she was dropped at 1:05 pm. It was reported the noose was too short and the was only 2 feet. As a result the execution was severely bungled as Habiba struggled against the rope gasping for air. She kicked and writhed in pain for a whole 14 minutes when she finally expired on 1:15 pm. This goes to show how bad dictatorships are.
@@youssefabdelaal434
You know that's a relatively good reason why the death penalty should be used for some cases. It's the only way to deal with corrupt leaders.
There are cruel and evil people in positions of power. She did not deserve to die because of their evil. They do.
@@marrqi7wini54 I agree, People do not realize we are being led by corrupt psycopaths
Gordon Northcott was a monster. This scene had me crying due to how scared of death he was. It truly horrified me and still does to this day.
I enjoyed it though, as he was a sick and vile creature.
Deserved what he got
fucking incredible acting!
Yea the twitching Feet was awesome! LOL
samsquanch1996 steptoe
samsquanch1996 .. Yeah, too bad you didn't see the "fucking incredible acting" of his victims - young boys between the ages of 9 and 12 abducted, tortured, raped, bludgeoned, decapitated, and dismembered. The media/liberals work hard to make us feel sorry for the criminals, ignoring the victims.
I wonder if Hillary's feet will twitch also.
bitterbutter1000 .. LOL. In that case, I hope they blotch the job and it requires two or three attempts.
Im happy he was so scared. Now he knows a fraction of what those kids felt. It took 13 minutes for him to die😸
This is one of the best performences i have ever seen! My god!
Real life quote by warden. " Well Gordon, nobody's complained yet!"
It was chilling when he began singing "Silent Night," particularly because the last words he sings are "mother and child" just as the trap-door opens and he falls through to his death. This is significant, because the entire movie was about a mother's search for her missing child, who may have been a victim of this man.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin, mother and child
Holy Infant, so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
Good catch!
@@writersblock26 thanks.
@@joshuajohnson2216 *then falls and gasps to breathe*
@@youssefabdelaal434 and died. Death by hanging makes a great climatic comeback for a villain who abducts little boys. He got what he deserves. Sorry Gordon you don't deserve to go to heaven cause Hell is where you'll belong, you have been warned! Oh Youssef nice job 👍
Love it!
The shear panic in his voice is soul crushing.
And what about all the cries and screams he elicited from all the bucking Children he killed, he bucking deserved it, "D-DON'T M-MAKE M-MEE W-WAALLLKKKK S-SOOO F-FAST!!!😭"
B¡⁷CH HOW DARE YOU BEG FOR MERCY AND NOT TO BE RUSHED TO YOUR DEATH, I BET ALL THE KIDS YOU MURDERED BEGGED THE SAME WAY YOU DID, and how dare you beg for a prayer of forgiveness, where you're going there is no hope or prayer of Salvation!!!🤬😤😒
I wonder if he somewhat patterned his performance after James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces. It was very similar.
to who? kiddy diddlers like yourself? his cries sound like heaven to me lmfao
I love how you can see the fear in his eyes
Some of the best acting I've ever seen, damn.
Advantageous Mutation excuse dude do you mind telling me the name of the movie plz?
changeling
Yeah I love the movie
“Hey Gordon wanna hang out?”
Gordon cummins........
I liked just so it’s at 69 likes
Not funny at all
3:32 air tap dancing 🕺
bro💀💀
If no one was as depraved as Albert Fish, North came awfully close.
Hello to those who are here after Buzzfeed Unsolved.
Nikhil John When they were describing the case I recalled this movie, but it was vague until searched up his name. This movie scared me so much when I was younger ;-;
Omg! I’m glad I’m not alone lol
Lmao hi😄
Ha me
hell yea
This is what murderers and pedophiles deserve... people say "they don't suffer from the death penalty"... no, they live the last moments of their disgusting lives in fear and terror, as all men fear death. Those last moments of psychological torture is punishment that could never be served in a comfortable prison life.
Nobody deserves the death penalty
Yes couldn't agree more
Why not? So you saying the Nazi Hierarchy didn't deserve to swing after all the atrocities they committed? Think your wrong their mate.
@@ethanh303 fuck you, ever read what he did to those kids?
Just want to point out, not ALL men (or women) fear death. Some of us look it in the eye and give it the finger every day...
I remember in 1971, in Ireland, a car stopping near my home and the driver asked my sister, two years my senior, to get in his vehicle. I was about to do so when my sister stopped me. I was 7 years old. I have shutter to think about what would have happened had I been alone that day and entered that vehicle...
He paid the price for his evil.
This movie is 10/10.
Clint Eastwood is a great director, J. Michael Straczynski is a great screenwriter and Angelina Jolie is a great actress. And Jason Butler Harner, who played Gordon Northcott, is also a great actor.
Everything is great :)
Ok we get it... everything is great about this movie... just say... "great movie"
@@83piwo who the fuck are you to tell anyone what they can or can't say? Prick
The J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5.
Lol - Angelina Jolie a great actress...
She's good.. but not great
Must have been his first time.
AHAHAHAHAHAglubglubglubglub
I think it might’ve
Unlike James Franco
"Hmm... First time?"
Love the Buster Scruggs reference LOL
Interesting, because I've always felt I lived many lives and I been executed before. Wouldn't be my first. I don't think.
Bring this shit back, lot less people would be doing sick and twisted shit if they knew this was the penalty…
My favourite film of all time, incredible acting and beautiful music composed by and directed by Clint Eastwood
My mom showed me this movie when I was very young many years ago. It scarred me for many many years. I never found the movie again until today, when I just right now stumbled upon it. Not as scary as it used to be to me, but the fact that it’s based off a true story is still frightening to me.
Honestly, this scene was done so brilliantly. Kudos to Jason Butler Harner
@ms. will always love my life I know I'm late, but it's the person who acted Gordon.
I read somewhere he took thirteen minutes to die. So there is justice in the world.
The irony of him begging for his life after all he did is poetic on its own.
Killers in the past: Death penalty.
Killers today: Life in prison, or they walk free.
I wish they wouldn't give killer's a time of their life in jail with free WiFi now which is really stupidly dumb and that ain't teaching them what they did for there crimes
What they SHOULD do, is make the worst criminals (like pedophiles) work until they die.
@@cvasquez3376 mmmmmm not bad I've never thought about that
Thanks. Join me in the Second American Revolution, and I swear, on pain of death, I'll give New America a better justice system.
@@cvasquez3376 ha okay
All the fear he felt was not 1/1,0000 the fear that those boys had being tortured and then killed. Sometimes death is a very good thing.
The planned killing of a human being is never a "good" thing. At best, it can be a necessary thing. But never something for a good person to celebrate.
Not when you go to hell for an eternity
Abraham Rodriguez wth what is wrong with his spelling?!
Youssef - it's not the "spelling," exactly. It's the fact that the number "1,0000" doesn't exist.
Konrad Heumann but that is not even english it's math ,he forgot to add the comma after the first 0
Streicher's last words before hsnging were"No! No! Aaaaaaaiiiiiieeeee!"; the hsngman, Pierrepoint. Said "He died like thr coward we all knew that he was"; even the othet Nazis despised him.
this is some really fantastic acting from the guy playing Northcott, 10/10 performance
This occurred literally 1 minute away from my house. It's eerie passing by the location everytime and realizing that that's where it all happened ...
I feel you, I live in Sacramento and back in the day there were the F streets murders, within a mile or two from me. iirc
The execution or his murders?
@@caseywatson3583 the actual chicken coop where the murders took place
@@fabian-isf5310 Wow thats interesting.
You mean the farm or the execution place as in the scene. Cause then you would live on a prisoners island...
A man like this is beyond rehabilitation and he is worthless to humanity. The death penalty is what he deserved.
99% of the world population is worthless to humanity.
That's literally Nazi rhetoric there chap
He's too evil for the death penalty
Very Nice theres a difference between saying someone is worthless to humanity because they cant stop killing kids and because they're IQ isnt high enough or because they're gay or Jewish or whatever else the nazis hated
Stfu
Cowards never want to be made to pay for what they do !!
It is really fascinating that the most heinous monsters are the biggest cowards. Very gratifying to witness this.
@Elena van der Leylen LOL 😈
@@ktnheart he wasn't really a monster lmao! a well built kid can own this guy. oh well. at least had fun doing his dance
Amazing acting
Ok we don't need to hear that all THE FUCKING TIME WE ALREADY KNOW ITS ACTING STUPID SHITTING FUCKHEAD
@@KarinaHernandez-ic1lk wow you need to get some help. Your clearly not right in the head.
@@KarinaHernandez-ic1lk what's your problem? He was just saying that he thought this. Movie scene was acted great
Oh Gordon don't be a _Chicken_
Would you want to be up there?
Baymax The Robot
it was a reference to the fact that this guy used chicken coops to kill small children in & hide the bodies!!, Do some history reading before trying to troll.
paulspydar i see what you did there
Lol
Ive seen what he really looks like and he looks pretty freaking insane
Toadstool which is TOAD-ally awesome it was a reference to the fact that this guy used chicken coops to kill
small children in & hide the bodies!!, Do some history reading
before trying to troll. or at least read the other comments first ..smh
Him falling through didn’t seem to freak me out as much as i thought it would
Execution by Hanging was better when it was public.
This one in particular was botched, he did not die instantly and strangled to death for 11 minutes.
Heey Gordon how's it hangin?
Good one
That's punny
whts the movie called
+Alan Simmons it's in the description
+Riley Ryan thxs
Gordon's mom- What are you doing up there son!
Gordon- Just hanging around...
heh
Haha
I DIED
LETTER R so did he
Wasn't his mom part of the killings too
Everyone’s a badass watching him until he actually starts struggling, then they look down
Movie deserves much acclaim it was such a underrated film
The acting is so spot on it’s disturbing
"Will it hurt?" Trust me bruss, itll be quicker compared to what you did to them little boys, rest in hell Northcott
Kyrie, eleison
I just watched this movie yesterday, and I wanted to cry
Doctor: *goes and check his heartbeat*
Me: He ain’t moving sir, pretty sure he dead dead
He still can be alive. Just slowly dying.
Could be faking it.
He’s dead Jim
Took the Fucker 11 minutes to die
SomePerson Online it took him 11 minutes to die. I think they were just making sure he was dying
Alas, Gordon threw his last temper tantrum!
Should be alot of this going on today. There’s no shortage of deranged humans.
If you look from Wiki: " The rope used for the execution was too slack to cause breakage of the neck, and it took thirteen minutes for him to die from strangulation."
Underrated movie with very underrated performances, this scene is one of the best peices of acting that I've ever seen!
I like it very much too, especially the hanging as he jerks at the rope
I wondered what was uttered before he went upstairs, after watching this movie for years, i just got what was said. The most chilling words to me of this scene, and the irony in them.... "will it hurt"?? After ravaging the lives of innocent young boys, he asks "will it hurt" . Even if it wasn't actually said by the real Gordon Northcott, this scene is brilliant in the way they portray him.
Yup you could tell he was terrified Sweating it 😳😥 he Soo didn't want to be left Hanging till All the way Dead he was screaming when he drops Awww NOOO 😵 then kicking around gagging mostly Hoping OMG PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME DOWN 😵💀 lol but Noo Sir your Hanging till Dead anyways LOL and he kinda Deserves every second wouldn't you agree?
According to a news article from this time, he actually DID say that in real life. As his hands were being strapped he asked "will it hurt?" He also in real life screamed "please pray for me" just before the drop. Even the "walking fast" part was said in real life as he was being forced up the stairs.
The scene depicts a very accurate portrayal of the actual event.
Even then, they filmed executions for the record. But these are NOT made public!!!
I do wonder if someone got a look at that film. After all, approximately 80 years had passed since the execution. (Just my thoughts.)
I put closed caption on. It did not help.
Yeah definitely 💯 and he was probably more Terrified than anything but he actually kinda Deserves to be Terrified wouldn't you agree with me?
One of the best scenes in the film industry.
So sorry for the families who lost children to this 👿 and god bless their little souls❤❤❤❤
this scene is masterpiece
This actor did a great job portraying a man who was so cruel!
Mama said, he is a good boy, never harmed anyone
No idea why I watch these scenes but that actor was fantastic.
I remember seeing this movie when I was like 8 even then thinking about how satisfying of an ending this was for this movie
Ikr I love how he danced like that
I remember seeing this as a kid and i had nightmares for weeks
Same there was a part where he killed kids with a axe
the juxtaposition of the timber ruler and the flashback of the axe
That statement makes me feel really old.
Did your parents use this movie to teach you not to talk to stangers? If so, they succeeded.
Same!! It scared me so much