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The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Directed by Jack Smight
“1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.”
Comedy, Drama, Western · 1h 35m
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
J
John Bottoms
Lawyer
Ford Rainey
Stanley Mae
James Greene
Gravey Combs
S
Sam Reese
Priest
Stefan Gierasch
Willy Herzallerliebst
Logan Ramsey
La Follette
Crew
- Director
- Jack Smight
- Screenplay
- Garrie Bateson
- Director of Photography
- Philip H. Lathrop
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Editor
- Neil Travis
- Producer
- Jack Smight
Details
- Release date
- 1970-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Western
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, French
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer