The Traveling Executioner
1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.
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- Drama
- Comedy
- Western
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.
Keywords
- electric chair
- murder of a policeman
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 1, 1970
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- William Mims,Val Avery,Marianna Hill,James Greene,James Sloyan,Bud Cort,M. Emmet Walsh,Paul Gauntt,Charles Tyner,Stacy Keachand 11 more
- Director
- Jack Smight
- Writer
- Garrie Bateson
- Producer
- Jack Smight
- Cinematography
- Philip H. Lathrop
- Music
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0066485