The Traveling Executioner 1970

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

The Traveling Executioner

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R
Comedy Drama Western

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.

Top Billed Cast

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

Release Date 1970-10-01
Runtime 1h 35m
Directors Jack Smight, Philip H. Lathrop
Producer Jack Smight
Writer Garrie Bateson