The Traveling Executioner
The Traveling Executioner
Release: 1970-10-01
·Runtime: 95m
·★ 5.5
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Graham Jarvis
as Doc Prittle
M. Emmet Walsh
as Warden Brodski
Ford Rainey
as Stanley Mae
James Greene
as Gravey Combs
Charlie Briggs
as Zak
Logan Ramsey
as La Follette
Walter Barnes
as Sheriff
Charles Tyner
as Virgil
Stacy Keach
as Jonas Candide
Marianna Hill
as Gundred Herzallerliebst
Stefan Gierasch
as Willy Herzallerliebst
Val Avery
as Jake
Jason Wingreen
as Medlow (uncredited)
Bud Cort
as Jimmy Croft
James Sloyan
as Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)
Katherine MacGregor
as Alice Thorn (uncredited)
