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The Traveling Executioner

"1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair."
R1970
3

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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R1970

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.


3

director
Jack Smight
cast
Stacy Keach, Bud Cort, Marianna Hill, Graham Jarvis 
runtime
1 hr 35 mins

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