The Spellbinder

1939Directed by Jack Hively

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Released: July 28, 1939
Runtime: 1h 9m

About The Spellbinder

Crime
Romance
Drama

Synopsis

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
Writers: Joseph Anthony
Thomas Lennon
Joseph Fields

Principal cast

In billing order

Lee TracyJed Marlowe
Barbara ReadJanet Marlowe
Patric KnowlesTom Dixon
Allan LaneSteve Kendall
Linda HayesMiss Simpson
Morgan ConwayMr. Carrington

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