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The Traveling Executioner

1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.

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The Traveling Executioner — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • October 1, 1970
  • Runtime
  • 95 min
  • Genres
  • Comedy, Drama, Western
  • Director
  • Jack Smight

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The Traveling Executioner — Cast

Stacy Keach photo Stacy Keach Jonas Candide Bud Cort photo Bud Cort Jimmy Croft Marianna Hill photo Marianna Hill Gundred Herzallerliebst Graham Jarvis photo Graham Jarvis Doc Prittle James Sloyan photo James Sloyan Piquant (as James J. Sloyan) M. Emmet Walsh photo M. Emmet Walsh Warden Brodski John Bottoms Lawyer Ford Rainey photo Ford Rainey Stanley Mae

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