The Traveling Executioner
Comedy, Drama, Western
🎬 Critics Choice Nominee
Director
Jack Smight
Status
Released
Release Date
1970-10-01
Storyline
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.
"1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair."
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