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.
as Jonas Candide
as Jimmy Croft
as Gundred Herzallerliebst
as Doc Prittle
as Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)
as Warden Brodski
as Lawyer
as Stanley Mae
as Gravey Combs
as Priest
as Willy Herzallerliebst
as La Follette
as Virgil
as Lynn
as Jake
as Sheriff
as Zak
as Jeremy
as Medlow (uncredited)
as Roscoe (uncredited)
as Alice Thorn (uncredited)