The Traveling Executioner
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jack Smight
Marianna Hill
Bud Cort
Graham Jarvis
James J. Sloyan
M. Emmet Walsh
Film Details
Technical Specs
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. When no pardon is forthcoming, Jonas attempts to persuade prison physician Doc Prittle to assist in simulating her execution. Prittle's price is so high, however, that the executioner gambles and pimps to get the money. Refused a supplementary bank loan, Jonas kills a guard. Although he frees Gundred, she deserts the executioner when he returns to town to retrieve his equipment. Gundred's sentence is commuted to life imprisonment, and Jonas is executed by his young assistant Jimmy, who ineptly transforms the electric chair into a funeral pyre.
Director
Jack Smight
Cast
Marianna Hill
Bud Cort
Graham Jarvis
James J. Sloyan
M. Emmet Walsh
John Bottoms
Ford Rainey
Jim Greene
Sammy Reese
Stefan Gierasch
Logan Ramsey
Charles Tyner
William Mims
Val Avery
Walter Barnes
Charlie Briggs
Paul Gauntt
Claire Brennen
Scottie Macgregor
Tony Fraser
Martine Fraser
Lorna Thayer
Pat Patterson
Crew
Garrie Bateson
Robert R. Benton
Norman Burza
Duke Callaghan
Michael Daves
George W. Davis
Ray De La Motte
Robert Forrest
Keogh Gleason
Jerry Goldsmith
Harry F. Hogan
Jerry Jost
Cliff King
Michael Kohut
Philip Lathrop
Kitty Mager
Bill Manooch
Edward Marks
Marilyn Matthews
Alan Rudolph
Jack Smight
Jack Smight
Michael Stevenson
Neil Travis
Jan Van Uchelen
Hal Watkins
Fred Williams
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Filmed on location at Kilby Prison near Montgomery, Alabama.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1970
Released in United States 1970
