The Spellbinder
“Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!”
1939•NR•1h 9m•6.3•Released
CrimeRomanceDrama
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?
Director
Jack Hively
Writer
Thomas Lennon, Joseph Fields
Languages
English
Studio
RKO Radio Pictures
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)
Production
Company
RKO Radio Pictures
Producer
Cliff Reid
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