The Spellbinder
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?
Release Date: 1939-07-28
Crime
Romance
Drama
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Casts
Lee Tracy
as Jed Marlowe
Barbara Read
as Janet Marlowe
Patric Knowles
as Tom Dixon
Allan Lane
as Steve Kendall
Linda Hayes
as Miss Simpson
Morgan Conway
as Mr. Carrington
Robert Emmett Keane
as Judge Butler, Second Trial
Roy Gordon
as Third Trial Judge
Robert Strange
as First Trial Judge
Elliott Sullivan
as Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
