The Traveling Executioner
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.
Directed by Jack Smight · Written by Garrie Bateson
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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 - John Bottoms Lawyer
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Ford Rainey Stanley Mae -
James Greene Gravey Combs - Sam Reese Priest
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Stefan Gierasch Willy Herzallerliebst -
Logan Ramsey La Follette
Make it a double feature
2h 49m together
The Traveling Executioner
The Longest Night
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