The Traveling Executioner
Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House
The Plot
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.
Run Time
1h 35m
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Western
Release Date
01 Oct 1970
Country
United States of America
Language
English, French
Director & Producers
Top Billed Cast
Stacy KeachJonas Candide
Bud CortJimmy Croft
Marianna HillGundred Herzallerliebst
Graham JarvisDoc Prittle
James SloyanPiquant (as James J. Sloyan)
M. Emmet WalshWarden Brodski
Lawyer
Ford RaineyStanley Mae
James GreeneGravey Combs
Priest
Stefan GieraschWilly Herzallerliebst
Logan RamseyLa Follette


Jack Smight
Jerry Goldsmith
Philip H. Lathrop