The Spellbinder (1939)

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?

Directed by

Jack Hively

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 Mr. Carrington
• Robert Emmett Keane as Judge Butler, Second Trial
• Roy Gordon as Third Trial Judge
• Robert Strange as First Trial Judge
• Elliott Sullivan as Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
• Leonid Kinskey as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
• Stanley Blystone as Court Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)

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