Release Date

01 Oct, 1970

Runtime

01:35: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Stacy Keach

Bud Cort

Marianna Hill

Graham Jarvis

James Sloyan

M. Emmet Walsh

John Bottoms

Ford Rainey

James Greene

Sam Reese

Stefan Gierasch

Logan Ramsey

Charles Tyner

William Mims

Val Avery

Walter Barnes

Charlie Briggs

Paul Gauntt

Jason Wingreen

Pat Patterson

Katherine MacGregor

Crew

Jack Smight

Jack Smight

Garrie Bateson

Fred Williams

Edward C. Carfagno

Neil Travis

Norman A. Burza

George W. Davis

Robert R. Benton

Jerry Goldsmith

F. Keogh Gleason

Jerry Jost

Jan Van Uchelen

Hal Watkins