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The Traveling Executioner

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Western

October 1, 1970 (US)

1h 35m

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, ...

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