The Traveling Executioner (1970)
"1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair."
Title: The Traveling Executioner
Original Title: The Traveling Executioner
Release Date: 1970-10-01
Status: Released
Rating: 5.458/10 (from 12 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Western
Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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
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
Ford Rainey
Stanley Mae
James Greene
Gravey Combs
Sam Reese
Priest
