The Spellbinder

Jul 28, 1939

1h 9m

★ 6.0

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

Overview

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?

Genres

Crime

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Jed Marlowe

Lee Tracy

Janet Marlowe

Barbara Read

Tom Dixon

Patric Knowles

Steve Kendall

Allan Lane

Miss Simpson

Linda Hayes

Mr. Carrington

Morgan Conway

Judge Butler, Second Trial

Robert Emmett Keane

Third Trial Judge

Roy Gordon

First Trial Judge

Robert Strange

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Elliott Sullivan

Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

Leonid Kinskey

Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

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