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