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.
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- Stacy KeachJonas Candide
- Bud CortJimmy Croft
- Marianna HillGundred Herzallerliebst
- Graham JarvisDoc Prittle
- James SloyanPiquant (as James J. Sloyan)
- M. Emmet WalshWarden Brodski
- John BottomsLawyer
- Ford RaineyStanley Mae
- James GreeneGravey Combs
- Sam ReesePriest
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- Jack SmightDirector
- Garrie BatesonScreenplay
- Philip H. LathropDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Neil TravisEditor
- Jack SmightProducer
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