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The Traveling Executioner

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.

1970 |1h 35m |  Comedy, Drama, Western

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Cast

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Stacy Keach

Jonas Candide

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Bud Cort

Jimmy Croft

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Marianna Hill

Gundred Herzallerliebst

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Graham Jarvis

Doc Prittle

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James Sloyan

Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)

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M. Emmet Walsh

Warden Brodski

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Ford Rainey

Stanley Mae

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James Greene

Gravey Combs

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Stefan Gierasch

Willy Herzallerliebst

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Logan Ramsey

La Follette

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Charles Tyner

Virgil

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Val Avery

Jake

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Walter Barnes

Sheriff

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Charlie Briggs

Zak

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Jason Wingreen

Medlow (uncredited)

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Katherine MacGregor

Alice Thorn (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

English, French

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