The Spellbinder
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
1939 · 1h 9m · Approved
Crime, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Jack Hively
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 and cast
- Jack Hively Director
- 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 Cast
- Elliott Sullivan Cast
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