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In 38 seconds he'll send you on your way to the Fields of Ambrosia, sizzling like a piece of Bacon. Stacy Keach electrifies in this starling 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-Carney 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 becomes undone after he is contracted to bring his ministrations to a pair of siblings and he 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.
Original Release
10/01/1970
US Release
10/01/1970
Cast
Name | Character |
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Stacy Keach | Jonas Candide |
Marianna Hill | Gundred Herzallerfiebst / Gundred Herzallerliebst |
Bud Cort | Jimmy Croft / Jimmy |
Graham Jarvis | Doc Prittle |
James Sloyan | Piquant (as James J. Sloyan) / Piquant |
M. Emmet Walsh | Warden Brodski |
John Bottoms | Lawyer |
Ford Rainey | Stanley Mae |
James Greene | Gravey Combs |
Sam Reese | Priest |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Stacy Keach | Jonas Candide |
Marianna Hill | Gundred Herzallerfiebst / Gundred Herzallerliebst |
Bud Cort | Jimmy Croft / Jimmy |
Graham Jarvis | Doc Prittle |
James Sloyan | Piquant (as James J. Sloyan) / Piquant |
M. Emmet Walsh | Warden Brodski |
John Bottoms | Lawyer |
Ford Rainey | Stanley Mae |
James Greene | Gravey Combs |
Sam Reese | Priest |
Stefan Gierasch | Willy Herzallerliebst |
Logan Ramsey | La Follette |
Charles Tyner | Virgil |
William Mims | Lynn |
Val Avery | Jake |
Walter Barnes | Sheriff |
Charlie Briggs | Zak |
Paul Gauntt | Jeremy |
Claire Brennen | Woman Passerby |
Martine Fraser | 2nd Child |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jack Smight | Producer |