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Director:
Jack Smight
Writer:
Garrie Bateson (writer)
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Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Western more
Tagline:
1918. The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.
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saw it in 1971 more (12 total)

Cast

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Stacy Keach ... Jonas Candide
Marianna Hill ... Gundred Herzallerliebst

Bud Cort ... Jimmy Croft
Graham Jarvis ... Doc Prittle
James Sloyan ... Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)

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 Follette
Charles Tyner ... Virgil
William Mims ... Lyon

Val Avery ... Jake
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:12 | Australia:PG | USA:R | Norway:18
Filming Locations:
Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama, USA more
Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) more

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Trivia:
This was filmed at Alabama's then recently closed Kilby Prison off of Coliseum Blvd. in Montgomery. As part of an agreement with the state for filming rights, filmmakers were supposed to have demolished the prison's massive walls with pyrotechnics during/after the film. However, the walls were so thick, three charges failed to do the job, and their remnants stayed around for years afterwards. more

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saw it in 1971, 13 October 2005
Author: andrewtenebrae-1 from United States

I was in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1971 and I saw Traveling Executioner with Stacy Keach at a local movie house. There were sub-titles in Spanish but the movie was in English. I recall this movie as a very emotional and character-based movie which left me with a sense that the character Keach played was real and tragic. I remember Keach's character mesmerizing the convict before his execution as a humanitarian effort to lessen the convict's fear. Such an effort in today's executions would be prevented, perhaps because the convict does not warrant such an amelioration of this final act. Nevertheless, Keach is providing consolation that we do not see for those who are executed. This in itself is an unusual scenario but having taken place in the early 1900's, seems to be credible. It is a shame that the movie never played in the US movie houses. I cannot even find it in video outlets. Why would such an emotional and great character script be relegated to the movie bone yard? It was weird but memorable. The movie Keach played with Cheech and Chong, where he played a dope-smoking Iguana-loving cop with a surreal lizard metamorphosis was along the same lines as his Traveling Executioner character where he also portrayed a person on the fringe of normalcy. This movie should be available as a tribute to Keach's selection of movie character parts that take him beyond the ordinary or normal character. Chazz Neilson

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