The Spellbinder (1939)

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?

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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)

Paul E. Burns

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Chester Clute

Dr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)

Chester Conklin

Courtroom Extra (uncredited)

C

Clyde Dilson

Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (uncredited)

Julia Faye

Courtroom Extra (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Nightclub Extra (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

J.J. Henkins, Auditor (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Tom, Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Jack Gargan

Courtroom Extra (uncredited)

Earle Hodgins

First Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)

Robert Homans

Court Policeman at Door (uncredited)

Lew Kelly

Turnkey (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Doris Lloyd

Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (uncredited)

Frank Marlowe

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Tom McGuire

Juror, First Trial (uncredited)

B

Bruce Mitchell

Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (uncredited)

Forbes Murray

Second Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)

G

George Noisom

Bellboy (uncredited)

Emory Parnell

Club 88 Doorman (uncredited)

Russ Powell

Juror, First Trial (uncredited)

Frank Puglia

Headwaiter (uncredited)

Leona Roberts

Mrs. Jenkins (uncredited)

Ronald R. Rondell

Reporter at Third Trial (uncredited)

Gertrude Sutton

Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (uncredited)

Harland Tucker

Kendall's Editor (uncredited)

M

Monte Vandergrift

Official from D.A.'s Office (uncredited)

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