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

The Traveling Executioner

Name: The Traveling Executioner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Released: 1970-10-01
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 5.893
Cast: Stacy Keach, Bud Cort, Marianna Hill, Graham Jarvis, James Sloyan

movie19701h 35m★ 5.9Released

Comedy Drama Western

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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