The Spellbinder
Crime
Romance
Drama
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
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?
1939-07-28
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Cast
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
Leonid Kinskey as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Stanley Blystone as Court Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Chester Clute as Dr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
Chester Conklin as Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
Julia Faye as Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
Bess Flowers as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as J.J. Henkins, Auditor (uncredited)
Edward Gargan as Tom, Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Jack Gargan as Courtroom Extra (uncredited)
Earle Hodgins as First Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)
Robert Homans as Court Policeman at Door (uncredited)
Lew Kelly as Turnkey (uncredited)
Donald Kerr as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Tom McGuire as Juror, First Trial (uncredited)
Forbes Murray as Second Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)
Emory Parnell as Club 88 Doorman (uncredited)
Russ Powell as Juror, First Trial (uncredited)
Frank Puglia as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Leona Roberts as Mrs. Jenkins (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell as Reporter at Third Trial (uncredited)
Gertrude Sutton as Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (uncredited)
Harland Tucker as Kendall's Editor (uncredited)