The Traveling Executioner (1970)

5.9/10 95 min Comedy Drama 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.

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

Ford Rainey

Stanley Mae

James Greene

Gravey Combs

Stefan Gierasch

Willy Herzallerliebst

Logan Ramsey

La Follette

Charles Tyner

Virgil

Val Avery

Jake

Walter Barnes

Sheriff

Charlie Briggs

Zak

Jason Wingreen

Medlow (uncredited)

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