ComedyDramaWestern
The Traveling Executioner
"1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair."
User Score13 votes
56%5.6/10
Release1970→
Runtime1H 35M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8
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
Media7
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Director
Jack Smight
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RKeywords
electric chairmurder of a policeman
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Countries:United States of America
Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer