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 Hill and her brother Gierasch. Although Keach fries Gierasch, Hill sleeps with Keach in an attempt put off her execution. The
love-struck Keach tries to get prison doctor 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...
Released:
1970
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins