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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, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Stacy KeachJonas Candide
Bud CortJimmy Croft
Marianna HillGundred Herzallerliebst
Graham JarvisDoc Prittle
James SloyanPiquant (as James J. Sloyan)
M. Emmet WalshWarden Brodski
Ford RaineyStanley Mae
James GreeneGravey Combs
Stefan GieraschWilly Herzallerliebst
Logan RamseyLa FolletteExplore the crew
- Director
- Jack Smight
- Screenplay
- Garrie Bateson
- Producer
- Jack Smight
- Editor
- Neil Travis
- Director of Photography
- Philip H. Lathrop
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith