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The Traveling Executioner (1970)

R ★ 5.6/10 95 min Comedy, Drama, Western United States English
Director: Jack Smight
Screenplay by: Garrie Bateson
Streaming: Not available
1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.

Description

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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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

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