The Spellbinder
1939 · Jack Hively · 69 min
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
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?
Lee TracyJed Marlowe
Barbara ReadJanet Marlowe
Patric KnowlesTom Dixon
Allan LaneSteve Kendall
Linda HayesMiss Simpson
Morgan ConwayMr. Carrington
Robert Emmett KeaneJudge Butler, Second Trial
Roy GordonThird Trial Judge
Robert StrangeFirst Trial Judge
Elliott SullivanHarry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Leonid KinskeyHarry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Stanley BlystoneCourt Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)
Paul E. BurnsHotel Clerk (uncredited)
Chester CluteDr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
Chester ConklinCourtroom Extra (uncredited)
