The Spellbinder
★ 6.3·1939·1h 9min·Crime, Drama, and Romance
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
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?
- Director
- Jack Hively
- Original language
- English
- Status
- Released (Jul 28, 1939)
Cast
39 people
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)
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Paul E. BurnsHotel Clerk (uncredited)
Chester CluteDr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
Chester ConklinCourtroom Extra (uncredited)- CDClyde DilsonDuffy, Second Trial Bailiff (uncredited)
Julia FayeCourtroom Extra (uncredited)
Bess FlowersNightclub Extra (uncredited)
Byron FoulgerJ.J. Henkins, Auditor (uncredited)
Edward GarganTom, Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Jack GarganCourtroom Extra (uncredited)
Earle HodginsFirst Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)
Robert HomansCourt Policeman at Door (uncredited)
Lew KellyTurnkey (uncredited)
Donald KerrTaxi Driver (uncredited)
Doris LloydMrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (uncredited)
Frank MarloweTaxi Driver (uncredited)
Tom McGuireJuror, First Trial (uncredited)- BMBruce MitchellPoliceman Testifying at Third Trial (uncredited)
Forbes MurraySecond Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)- GNGeorge NoisomBellboy (uncredited)
Emory ParnellClub 88 Doorman (uncredited)
Russ PowellJuror, First Trial (uncredited)
Frank PugliaHeadwaiter (uncredited)
Leona RobertsMrs. Jenkins (uncredited)
Ronald R. RondellReporter at Third Trial (uncredited)
Gertrude SuttonMiss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (uncredited)
Harland TuckerKendall's Editor (uncredited)- MVMonte VandergriftOfficial from D.A.'s Office (uncredited)
