The Spellbinder
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“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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Cast
56 people
Lee Tracy
Jed Marlowe
Known for
Bombshell
Doctor X
Barbara Read
Janet Marlowe
Known for
Make Way for Tomorrow
Joseph Anthony
Jack Hively
Van Nest Polglase
Cliff Reid
Patric Knowles
Tom Dixon
Known for
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Wolf Man
Thomas Lennon
Known for
17 Again
Memento
Roy Webb
Allan Lane
Steve Kendall
Known for
Mister Ed
Joseph Fields
Theron Warth
Jack Hively Director · Joseph Fields Screenplay Thomas Lennon Screenplay
United States release July 28, 1939 · Produced in United States · Production RKO
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
RKO
Production · Distribution
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · July 28, 1939
Theatrical
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