

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.
Acting
Stacy Keach's unhinged, magnetic preacher-showman energy.
Production
The grotesque traveling electric chair as character.

Director
Jack Smight
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of the last films produced by the original MGM before its 1970s financial collapse, then buried for decades.
The film eerily predicts America's appetite for true-crime spectacle—Jonas would be a podcast host today.
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