The Spellbinder (1939)
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
69 min
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 date
- July 28, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lee Tracy as Jed Marlowe
- Barbara Read as Janet Marlowe
- Patric Knowles as Tom Dixon
- Allan Lane as Steve Kendall
- Linda Hayes as Miss Simpson
- Morgan Conway as D.A. Carrington
- Robert Emmett Keane as Judge Butler
- Roy Gordon as Third Trial Judge
- Robert Strange as First Trial Judge
- Elliott Sullivan as Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Crew
- Jack Hively · Director
- Thomas Lennon · Writer
- Joseph Fields · Writer
- Joseph Anthony · Writer
- Cliff Reid · Producer
- Russell Metty · Cinematographer
- Theron Warth · Editor