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.
Stacy Keach
as Jonas Candide
Bud Cort
as Jimmy Croft
Marianna Hill
as Gundred Herzallerliebst
Graham Jarvis
as Doc Prittle
James Sloyan
as Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)
M. Emmet Walsh
as Warden Brodski
John Bottoms
as Lawyer
Ford Rainey
as Stanley Mae
James Greene
as Gravey Combs
Sam Reese
as Priest
Stefan Gierasch
as Willy Herzallerliebst
Logan Ramsey
as La Follette
