Traveling Executioner, The (Previously Owned DVD-R)

Condition: Disc Has Some Very Minor Surface Markings. 

Stacy Keach electrifies in this startling black comedy about an itinerant electrocutioner. It's 1918, and Jonas Candide travels the South with a portable electric chair. Offering up his services to various authorities at a price of $100 a jolt, the ex-carny tends to his charges with his own brand of tender loving care.

Dispensing his own philosophy and consolation, he assures the prisoners that the Fields of Ambrosia await them on the other side of their ordeal. And then he throws the, switch.

Jonas life of lethal loquacity comes undone after he is contracted to bring his ministrations to a pair of siblings and finds himself drawn to one of them.

Bud Cort also excels in this too-rarely-seen dark jewel of a film, playing Jonas' bumbling assistant.