The Spellbinder
Crime | Romance
Release Date
July 28, 1939
Duration
69 min
Status
Released
Language
en
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?
Casts
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
Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)
Chester Clute
Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)
Clyde Dilson
Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Julia Faye
Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)
Bess Flowers
J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Edward Gargan
Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Jack Gargan
First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)
Robert Homans
Turnkey (Uncredited)
Lew Kelly
Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)
Doris Lloyd
Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Bruce Mitchell
Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Forbes Murray
Bellboy (Uncredited)
George Noisom
Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Russ Powell
Headwaiter (Uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)
Leona Roberts
Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)
Gertrude Sutton
Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)
Harland Tucker
Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)
Monte Vandergrift
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