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The Traveling Executioner

The Traveling Executioner

5.9 (14) ·1970 ·95 min ·Movie
Comedy Drama Western

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

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 Cast

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

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