The Traveling Executioner (1970)
1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.
1970 · R · 1h 35m · Comedy, Drama, Western
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Western
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.
Director: Jack Smight
Writers: Garrie Bateson
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop
Editor: Neil Travis
Cast
Stacy Keach as Jonas CandideBud Cort as Jimmy CroftMarianna Hill as Gundred HerzallerliebstGraham Jarvis as Doc PrittleJames Sloyan as Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)M. Emmet Walsh as Warden BrodskiJohn Bottoms as LawyerFord Rainey as Stanley MaeJames Greene as Gravey CombsSam Reese as PriestStefan Gierasch as Willy HerzallerliebstLogan Ramsey as La FolletteMore like this
The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)Jane Got a Gun (2015)About Alex (2014)Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)Small Apartments (2012)God Bless America (2012)Hooking Up (2020)