The Spellbinder

Name: The Spellbinder
Director: Jack Hively
Genre: Crime, Romance, Drama
Released: 1939-07-28
Duration: 69 min
Cast: Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Allan Lane, Linda Hayes

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1939 · 69 min · NR · Crime · Romance · Drama · TMDB 6.2/10

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?

Directed by Jack Hively

Cast

Lee Tracy — Jed Marlowe
Barbara Read — Janet Marlowe
Patric Knowles — Tom Dixon
Allan Lane — Steve Kendall
Linda Hayes — Miss Simpson