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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?

Release: 1939-07-28
Runtime: 69 min
Rating: 6 / 10
Cast
Lee Tracy
Lee Tracy
Jed Marlowe
Barbara Read
Barbara Read
Janet Marlowe
Patric Knowles
Patric Knowles
Tom Dixon
Allan Lane
Allan Lane
Steve Kendall
Linda Hayes
Linda Hayes
Miss Simpson
Morgan Conway
Morgan Conway
Mr. Carrington
Robert Emmett Keane
Robert Emmett Keane
Judge Butler, Second Trial
Roy Gordon
Roy Gordon
Third Trial Judge
Robert Strange
Robert Strange
First Trial Judge
Elliott Sullivan
Elliott Sullivan
Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Leonid Kinskey
Leonid Kinskey
Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Stanley Blystone
Stanley Blystone
Court Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
Paul E. Burns
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Chester Clute
Dr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Chester Conklin
Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
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Clyde Dilson
Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (uncredited)
Julia Faye
Julia Faye
Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
Nightclub Extra (uncredited)