The Traveling Executioner (1970)
1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
- Date of release
- 1970-10-01
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Western
- Director
- Jack Smight
Casting
- Stacy Keach — Jonas Candide
- Bud Cort — Jimmy Croft
- Marianna Hill — Gundred Herzallerliebst
- Graham Jarvis — Doc Prittle
- James Sloyan — Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)
- M. Emmet Walsh — Warden Brodski
- John Bottoms — Lawyer
- Ford Rainey — Stanley Mae
- James Greene — Gravey Combs
- Sam Reese — Priest
- Stefan Gierasch — Willy Herzallerliebst
- Logan Ramsey — La Follette
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