Stacy Keach
Jonas Candide
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The Traveling Executioner is a 1970 American comedy-drama western film directed by Jack Smight and starring Stacy Keach, Bud Cort, Stefan Gierasch and Marianna Hill. The musical The Fields of Ambrosia is based on the film.
Jun 23, 1972 · The Traveling Executioner: Directed by Jack Smight. With Stacy Keach, Marianna Hill, Bud Cort, Graham Jarvis. Stacy Keach is electrifying as Jonas Candide, an ex-carny who in 1918 travels around the bayou with a portable electric chair.
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- Comedy, Drama, Western
- Jack Smight
- 1972-06-23
An executioner is seduced by a woman marked for his portable electric chair in the 1918 Deep South.
- Jack Smight, Michael Daves, Alan Rudolph
- Marianna Hill
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.
In 38 seconds he'll send you on your way to the Fields of Ambrosia, sizzling; like a piece of Bacon. Stacy Keach electrifies in this starling black comedy about an itinerant electrocutioner. It's...
The Traveling Executioner. Stacy Keach is electrifying as Jonas Candide, an ex-Carny who travels around the bayou with a portable electric chair. At $100 a head, he renders his services with loving care. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
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In 1970 Jerry Goldsmith scored one of his most offbeat films: The Traveling Executioner, a period drama/black comedy starring Stacy Keach as Jonas Candide, a proud electric chair owner who sends condemned prisoners off to "the fields of Ambrosia" for $100 a pop.
