The Spellbinder

Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!

  • Rated 6.2 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1939
  • 1h 9m
  • Crime
  • Romance
  • Drama

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
Starring
Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Allan Lane

Cast

  • Lee Tracy

    Lee Tracy

    Jed Marlowe

  • Barbara Read

    Barbara Read

    Janet Marlowe

  • Patric Knowles

    Patric Knowles

    Tom Dixon

  • Allan Lane

    Allan Lane

    Steve Kendall

  • Linda Hayes

    Linda Hayes

    Miss Simpson

  • Morgan Conway

    Morgan Conway

    Mr. Carrington

  • Robert Emmett Keane

    Robert Emmett Keane

    Judge Butler, Second Trial

  • Roy Gordon

    Roy Gordon

    Third Trial Judge

  • Robert Strange

    Robert Strange

    First Trial Judge

  • Elliott Sullivan

    Elliott Sullivan

    Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

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