Film

The Spellbinder

1939 · 1h 9m · Crime · Romance · Drama

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

IMDb

6.2

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?

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)

• Jack HivelyDirector
• Thomas LennonScreenplay
• Joseph FieldsScreenplay
• Joseph AnthonyStory
• Cliff ReidProducer
• Russell MettyDirector of Photography
• Rex DunnOriginal Music Composer
• Theron WarthEditor

Release date

July 28, 1939

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 9m

Rated

NR

Genres

Crime, Romance, Drama

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