Film
The Spellbinder
1939 · 1h 9m · Crime · Romance · Drama
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
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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?
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)
Paul E. Burns
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Dr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
Clyde Dilson
Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (uncredited)
Crew
- Jack HivelyDirector
- Thomas LennonScreenplay
- Joseph FieldsScreenplay
- Joseph AnthonyStory
- Cliff ReidProducer
- Russell MettyDirector of Photography
- Rex DunnOriginal Music Composer
- Theron WarthEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- July 28, 1939
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Rated
- NR
- Genres
- Crime, Romance, Drama
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