The Spellbinder (1939)
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?
- Data di uscita
- 1939-07-28
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (4)
- Durata
- 1 h 9 min
- Generi
- Crime, Romance, Dramma
- Regista
- Jack Hively
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)
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