The Traveling Executioner
1970/10/01 • Released • English, French
1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.
Overview
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.
Director : Jack Smight
Casts
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
Ford Rainey
Stanley Mae
James Greene
Gravey Combs
Stefan Gierasch
Willy Herzallerliebst
Logan Ramsey
La Follette
Charles Tyner
Virgil
Val Avery
Jake
Walter Barnes
Sheriff
Charlie Briggs
Zak
Jason Wingreen
Medlow (uncredited)
Katherine MacGregor
Alice Thorn (uncredited)
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