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The Traveling Executioner

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

1970★ 5.9 · 141h 35mComedyDramaWestern

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.

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Cast

Stacy Keach
as Jonas Candide

M. Emmet Walsh
as Warden Brodski

Marianna Hill
as Gundred Herzallerliebst

Bud Cort
as Jimmy Croft

Graham Jarvis
as Doc Prittle

Walter Barnes
as Sheriff

Katherine MacGregor
as Alice Thorn (uncredited)

Logan Ramsey
as La Follette

Val Avery
as Jake

Stefan Gierasch
as Willy Herzallerliebst

James Sloyan
as Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)

Jason Wingreen
as Medlow (uncredited)

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Release date: 1970-10-01

Runtime: 1h 35m

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ComedyDramaWestern

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