
The Spellbinder
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?
CrimeRomanceDrama
The Spellbinder
Rating
6.0/10
Release Date
1939-07-28
Runtime
69 minutes
Status
Released
Cast

Lee Tracy
Jed Marlowe

Barbara Read
Janet Marlowe

Patric Knowles
Tom Dixon

Allan Lane
Steve Kendall

Linda Hayes
Miss Simpson

Morgan Conway
Mr. Carrington

Robert Emmett Keane
Judge Butler, Second Trial

Roy Gordon
Third Trial Judge

Robert Strange
First Trial Judge

Elliott Sullivan
Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Leonid Kinskey
Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

Stanley Blystone
Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)
Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures