

The Traveling Executioner
Visit website5.9/10 • 11
1970-10-01 • 1h 35m
1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.
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.
- Directors
- Jack Smight
- Editors
- Neil Travis

The Traveling Executioner
Visit website1970-10-01 • 1h 35m
5.9/10 • 11
1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.
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.
- Directors
- Jack Smight
- Editors
- Neil Travis
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsStacy 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
John Bottoms
Lawyer
Ford Rainey
Stanley Mae
James Greene
Gravey Combs
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- English
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- Keywords
- electric chairmurder of a policeman