The Spellbinder
The Spellbinder
Release: 1939-07-28
·Runtime: 69m
·★ 6.0
Crime
Romance
Drama
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?
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
Cast
Doris Lloyd
as Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)
Gertrude Sutton
as Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)
Lee Tracy
as Jed Marlowe
Allan Lane
as Steve Kendall
Leonid Kinskey
as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Patric Knowles
as Tom Dixon
Morgan Conway
as Mr. Carrington
Byron Foulger
as J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)
Edward Gargan
as Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Donald Kerr
as Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Emory Parnell
as Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)
Leona Roberts
as Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)
Barbara Read
as Janet Marlowe
Tom McGuire
as Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Russ Powell
as Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Harland Tucker
as Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)
Linda Hayes
as Miss Simpson
Roy Gordon
as Third Trial Judge
Robert Strange
as First Trial Judge
Stanley Blystone
as Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
as First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Robert Homans
as Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)
Lew Kelly
as Turnkey (Uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
as Judge Butler, Second Trial
Chester Clute
as Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)
Julia Faye
as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Forbes Murray
as Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Elliott Sullivan
as Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Chester Conklin
as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
as Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Frank Puglia
as Headwaiter (Uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
as Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
as Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
Bess Flowers
as Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)
