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The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder - 1939

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?

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Origin Country

United States of America

Spoken Languages

English

Crime Romance Drama

Streaming:

TCM

Released: Status
1939-07-28: Release Date
$0.00: Budget
$0.00: Revenue
0.5633: Popularity
1h 9min: Runtime
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!: Tagline
2: Vote Count

Cast

Lee Tracy

Barbara Read

Patric Knowles

Allan Lane

Linda Hayes

Morgan Conway

Robert Emmett Keane

Robert Emmett Keane

Judge Butler, Second Trial

Roy Gordon

Third Trial Judge

Robert Strange

First Trial Judge

Elliott Sullivan

Elliott Sullivan

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Leonid Kinskey

Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

Stanley Blystone

Stanley Blystone

Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)

Paul E. Burns

Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)

Chester Clute

Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Clyde Dilson

Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)

Julia Faye

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)

Byron Foulger

J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Jack Gargan

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Earle Hodgins

First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

Robert Homans

Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)

Lew Kelly

Turnkey (Uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Doris Lloyd

Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)

Frank Marlowe

Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Tom McGuire

Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Bruce Mitchell

Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)

Forbes Murray

Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

George Noisom

Bellboy (Uncredited)

Emory Parnell

Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)

Russ Powell

Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Frank Puglia

Headwaiter (Uncredited)

Leona Roberts

Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)

Ronald R. Rondell

Ronald R. Rondell

Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)

Gertrude Sutton

Gertrude Sutton

Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)

Harland Tucker

Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)

Monte Vandergrift

Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)

Crew

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

RKO Radio Pictures

United States of America

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