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.

• DirectorJack Smight
• Release1 October 1970
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 35m
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  5.5
  12 reviews
• Productions

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer