The Spellbinder (1939)
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
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?
- Date of release
- 1939-07-28
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Genres
- Crime, Romance, Drama
- Director
- Jack Hively
Casting
- 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)
Interesting facts
The Spellbinder is a 1939 American drama film directed by Jack Hively, written by Thomas Lennon and Joseph Fields, and starring Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Allan Lane and Linda Hayes. It was released on July 28, 1939, by RKO Pictures.
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