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The Traveling Executioner

The Traveling Executioner

Jack Smight

1970

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Western
5.9

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.

Cast & crew

  • Jack SmightDirector
  • Stacy KeachJonas Candide
  • Bud CortJimmy Croft
  • Marianna HillGundred Herzallerliebst
  • Graham JarvisDoc Prittle
  • James SloyanPiquant (as James J. Sloyan)
  • M. Emmet WalshWarden Brodski
  • John BottomsLawyer
  • Ford RaineyStanley Mae

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