The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Stacey Keach - Mariana Hill - Stefan Gierash

Stacy Keach (Jonas Candide)............................................. ..................................Mariana Hill (Gundred Herzallerliebst)
Bud Cort (Jimmy).............................................................. .................................................Graham Jarvis (Doc Prittle)
James J. Sloyan (Piquant).................................................. ....................................M. Emmet Walsh (Warden Brodski)
John Bottoms (lawyer)....................................................... .................................................Ford Rainey (Stanley Mae)
James Greene (Gravey Combs)........................................... .......................................................Sammy Reese (priest)
Stefan Gierasch (Willy Herzallerliebst)................................. .................................................Logan Ramsey (La Follete)
Charles Tyner (Virgil).......................................................... ..........................................................William Mims (Lynn)
Val Avery (Jake)................................................................ .......................................................Walter Barnes (sherrif)
Charlie Briggs (Zak)........................................................... ..........................................................Paul Gaunt (Jeremy)
Claire Brennen (woman passerby)....................................... .........................................Scottie MacGregor (Alice Thorn)
Tony Fraser (1st child)........................................................ ...................................................Martine Fraser (2nd child)
Lorna Thayer (madam)....................................................... ......................................................Pat Patterson (Roscoe)

Comedy-Drama. 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 a pardon, postphones 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.
Note: Filmed on location at Kirby Prison near Montgomery, Alabama. Solitaire Productions. Dist Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 1 Oct 1970 [Montgomery, Alabama opening; c16 Oct 1970; LP38520]. Sd; col (Metrocolor). 35mm. 95 min. MPAA rating R. A Jack Smight Production. Prod-Dir Jack Smight. Screenplay Garrie Bateson. Dir Photog Phillip Lanthrop. Camera Op Duke Callaghan. Asst Camera Cliff King. Art Dir George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno. Set Decor Robert R. Benton, Keogh Gleason. Film Ed Neil Travis. Asst Ed Michael Stevenson, ed. Mus Jerry Goldsmith. Sd Jerry Jost, Hal Watkins. Mix Bill Manooch. Boom Op Michael Daves, Alan Rudolph. Unit Prod Mgr Harry F. Logan. Script Supv Robert Forrest. Wardrobe Norman Burza, Edward Marks, Kitty Mage, Marilyn Matthews. Makeup Fred Williams. Hairstyles Jan Van Uchelen. Still Photog Ray De La Motte.

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