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The Traveling Executioner

"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.

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  • Stacy Keach

    Stacy Keach

    Jonas Candide

  • Bud Cort

    Bud Cort

    Jimmy Croft

  • Marianna Hill

    Marianna Hill

    Gundred Herzallerliebst

  • Graham Jarvis

    Graham Jarvis

    Doc Prittle

  • James Sloyan

    James Sloyan

    Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)

  • M. Emmet Walsh

    M. Emmet Walsh

    Warden Brodski

  • John Bottoms

    John Bottoms

    Lawyer

  • Ford Rainey

    Ford Rainey

    Stanley Mae

  • James Greene

    James Greene

    Gravey Combs

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.

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