The Traveling Executioner

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.

Jack Smight

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Jack Smight

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01-10-1970

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US

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5.9

Rating

11

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95 min

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English, French

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Jack Smight

Jack Smight

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Smight (March 9, 1925 - September 1, 2003) was an American theatre and film director. Smight was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and went to school with future actor Peter Graves. His film credits include The Traveling Executioner, Rabbit, Run, Loving Couples, Midway, Harper, Airport 1975, Damnation Alley and the Emmy Award-winning Eddie, as well as many episodes of television series such as The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. He also directed the 1960 Broadway play The 49th Cousin and composed the music for the film adaption of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Smight died from cancer in Los Angeles, California. He was 78. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Smight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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