The Traveling Executioner (1970)

ALL 10/01/1970 (en) Comedy, Drama, Western 95 Min
  • Release
    10/01/1970
  • Production
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Rotten tomato
    59%
  • Original title
    The Traveling Executioner
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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

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.

  1. Jack Smight

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Neil Travis

    Editor

  4. Jack Smight

    Producer



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  1. Stacy Keach

    Jonas Candide

  2. Bud Cort

    Jimmy Croft

  3. Marianna Hill

    Gundred Herzallerliebst

  4. Graham Jarvis

    Doc Prittle

  5. James Sloyan

    Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)

  6. M. Emmet Walsh

    Warden Brodski

  7. John Bottoms

    Lawyer

  8. Ford Rainey

    Stanley Mae

  9. James Greene

    Gravey Combs

  10. Sam Reese

    Priest

  11. Stefan Gierasch

    Willy Herzallerliebst

  12. Logan Ramsey

    La Follette

  13. Charles Tyner

    Virgil

  14. William Mims

    Lynn

  15. Val Avery

    Jake

  16. Walter Barnes

    Sheriff

  17. Charlie Briggs

    Zak

  18. Paul Gauntt

    Jeremy

  19. Jason Wingreen

    Medlow (uncredited)

  20. Pat Patterson

    Roscoe (uncredited)

  21. Katherine MacGregor

    Alice Thorn (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 21 , Crews : 16

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The Traveling Executioner (1970) 95 Min

ALL 10/01/1970 (en)
Comedy, Drama, Western
  • Release 10/01/1970
  • Production
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Original title The Traveling Executioner
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

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.

  1. Jack Smight

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Neil Travis

    Editor

  4. Jack Smight

    Producer