The Traveling Executioner

10/01/1970

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1hr 35min

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Comedy

,Drama

,Western

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

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Stacy Keach
  • Bud Cort
  • Marianna Hill
  • Graham Jarvis
  • James Sloyan

    Director

  • Jack Smight

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French

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