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The Traveling Executioner poster

The Traveling Executioner

1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.

1970 1h 35m 5.9Movie

ComedyDramaWestern

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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Jack Smight

Director

Garrie Bateson

Screenplay