Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
14 audience votes
Key crew
- Jack SmightDirector
- Garrie BatesonScreenplay
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
- Stefan GieraschWilly Herzallerliebst
- Logan RamseyLa Follette
Stills
Themes
electric chairmurder of a policeman