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TRAVELING EXECUTIONER, THE
Stacy Keach is excellent as an executioner-for-hire who travels
around the country in 1918 with his own electric chair performing
executions. In Alabama, he has to kill Marianna Hill and her
brother Stefan Gierasch. Although Keach fries Gierasch, Hill
sleeps with Keach in an attempt to put off her execution. The
love-struck Keach tries to get prison doctor Graham Jarvis to
help him fake Hill's execution, but the doctor asks a steep
price for his cooperation, and when Keach is turned down for
a loan at the bank, the executioner murders a guard and frees
Hill. The young woman takes off on Keach when he returns to
claim his equipment. Both are later caught. Instead of being
executed, Hill is given a life sentence; however, Keach is electrocuted
by his idiot assistant, Bud Cort. Novice screenwriter Garrie
Bateson was a student at the University of Southern California
when he whipped up the macabre script for this one. Directed
by Jack Smight. (1970) In English.
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