Stacy Keach
Jonas Candide
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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
The Traveling Executioner. 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. [1] The musical The Fields of Ambrosia is based on the film. [2]
Synopsis. In 1918 Jonas Candide, equipped with his own electric chair, travels from prison to prison charging $100 per execution. At Fairweather Prison in Alabama, he is hired to electrocute siblings Willy and Gundred Herzallerliebst. After he executes Willy, Jonas is seduced by Gundred and, hoping for her pardon, postpones her execution.
- Jack Smight, Michael Daves, Alan Rudolph
- Marianna Hill
Garrie Bateson. 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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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.
