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
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)
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)
