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Director:
J.G. Patterson Jr.
Writer:
J.G. Patterson Jr. (writer)
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Release Date:
June 1977 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Crime more
Tagline:
If You Kill...You Pay The Price In...THE ELECTRIC CHAIR more
Plot:
The murder of an innocent, happy couple leads to a courtroom trial that would sentence the killer to death, but who really did it? | add synopsis
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User Comments:
An in-depth study of the legal system, with a jolt of weirdness. more (3 total)

Cast

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Al Adams ... Coroner
Chris Allen ... Man who discovers bodies
Barry Bell ... Rev. Samuel Moss
Annie Boyd ... Maybel Swank
Diane Brandon ... Lee's girl
Thomas Briggs ... Foreman of jury
Katherine Cortez ... Marilyn Howard
Don Cummins ... Dist. Atty. Grover
Johnnie Deese ... Ambulance driver
L.L. DeFrance ... Court recorder
Dock A. Flynn ... Guard on Death Row
Clarence Gilbert ... Sheriff
William Pickney Greene ... Deputy Frankum
James Hammonds ... Deputy
William E. Hipp ... Crazy Billy
Beth Hodges ... Wilma Stigmon
Frank Jones ... Lee Davison
Worth Keeter ... Boy murdered in court
James C. Knight ... Foreman of jury
Larry Lambeth ... Attorney Gibson
Charlie Leonard ... Judge
Herbert McCray ... Death Row singer
Martin McDonald ... Attorney Klein
B.W. Mitchell ... Courtroom policeman
J.G. Patterson Jr. ... Mose Cooper (as Pat Patterson)
Nita Patterson ... Clair Moss
Dee Quinn ... Carol
Charles Rickard ... Chuck
Billy J. Robertson ... Priest
Chief M.T. Rogers ... Policeman
Robin Rowell ... Drive-in waitress
Malcolm O. Russell ... Policeman
Bill Simmons ... Gov. Broadman
Roy Starr ... Bailiff
Kenneth G. Stigmon ... Joss Howard
John G. Surratt Jr. ... TV announcer
Catherine Taylor ... Maid / Joan Lindsay
Tom Utley ... Warden
Julia Wallace ... Nurse in morgue
Harry H. Waters ... Electrocutioner
K. Wayne Willis ... Policeman
Frances Yarborough ... Lady on jury
Mary Helen Yarborough ... Woman who discovers bodies
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
High Voltage (USA) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:R
Filming Locations:
North Carolina, USA

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
An in-depth study of the legal system, with a jolt of weirdness., 19 March 1999
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Author: Jason C. Atwood from Suffolk, Virginia

If you're familiar with DR. GORE and the utterly notorious FACES OF DEATH series, then you will find Pat Patterson's long lost THE ELECTRIC CHAIR shocking in its strangely demented execution (meaning a serious court film gone horribly wrong!). It is by no means a blood-and-guts horror film, as this focuses on a sequential process of investigation and trial over a simple little murder that could have been easily averted. The real drama behind the killings ends here, and for what you'd expect in a forgotten little drive-in flick, the weirdness makes up most of its fun. It never tries hard at being mighty provocative. You know a movie that can have plain white sets and poor sound quality. Take this one differently if you can, because a lot of bad production values are everywhere! Not even the acting nor the awkward camera angles would be a magnificent grace in showing respect and loyalty to the judge. Perhaps the greatest laugh of all in this film concerns an investigation of a decomposed body following an autopsy. Out pops...a silly looking skull-face model with huge eyeballs! And just when nothing should go wrong in the courtroom, something else does! This is one really messed up movie that may have you heading for the hospital emergency unit in a jolting flash! Lost movie collectors should give this one a shock treatment.

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