The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder (1939)

Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!

Crime Romance Drama

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

star 6 6.2
  • Release Date: 1939-07-28
  • Runtime: 1h 9min
  • Director: Jack Hively

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    • Cast

    • Lee Tracy

      Jed Marlowe

    • Barbara Read

      Janet Marlowe

    • Patric Knowles

      Tom Dixon

    • Allan Lane

      Steve Kendall

    • Linda Hayes

      Miss Simpson

    • Morgan Conway

      Mr. Carrington

    • Robert Emmett Keane

      Judge Butler, Second Trial

    • Roy Gordon

      Third Trial Judge

    • Robert Strange

      First Trial Judge

    • Elliott Sullivan

      Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

    • Leonid Kinskey

      Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

    • Stanley Blystone

      Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)

    • Paul E. Burns

      Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)

    • Chester Clute

      Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)

    • Chester Conklin

      Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

    • Clyde Dilson

      Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)

    • Julia Faye

      Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

    • Bess Flowers

      Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)

    • Byron Foulger

      J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)

    • Edward Gargan

      Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

    • Jack Gargan

      Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

    • Earle Hodgins

      First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

    • Robert Homans

      Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)

    • Lew Kelly

      Turnkey (Uncredited)

    • Donald Kerr

      Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

    • Doris Lloyd

      Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)

    • Frank Marlowe

      Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

    • Tom McGuire

      Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

    • Bruce Mitchell

      Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)

    • Forbes Murray

      Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

    • George Noisom

      Bellboy (Uncredited)

    • Emory Parnell

      Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)

    • Russ Powell

      Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

    • Frank Puglia

      Headwaiter (Uncredited)

    • Leona Roberts

      Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)

    • Ronald R. Rondell

      Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)

    • Gertrude Sutton

      Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)

    • Harland Tucker

      Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)

    • Monte Vandergrift

      Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)

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