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The Spellbinder

(1939)

July 28, 1939 1h 9m
63%
TMDB Score

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?

Jack Hively

Director

Top Billed Cast

LT

Lee Tracy

Jed Marlowe

BR

Barbara Read

Janet Marlowe

PK

Patric Knowles

Tom Dixon

AL

Allan Lane

Steve Kendall

LH

Linda Hayes

Miss Simpson

MC

Morgan Conway

Mr. Carrington

REK

Robert Emmett Keane

Judge Butler, Second Trial

RG

Roy Gordon

Third Trial Judge

RS

Robert Strange

First Trial Judge

ES

Elliott Sullivan

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

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