The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder (1939)

Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!

  • Genre: Crime, Romance, Drama
  • Release Date: 1939-07-28
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 9min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Jack Hively
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Summary

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

    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)

  • Clyde Dilson

    as Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (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)

  • Jack Gargan

    as Courtroom Extra (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)

  • Bruce Mitchell

    as Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)

  • Forbes Murray

    as Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

  • George Noisom

    as Bellboy (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)

  • Monte Vandergrift

    as Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)
Writing Joseph Anthony Story
Writing Thomas Lennon Screenplay
Writing Joseph Fields Screenplay
Costume & Make-Up Renié Costume Design
Art Van Nest Polglase Art Direction
Directing Jack Hively Director
Production Cliff Reid Producer
Editing Theron Warth Editor
Camera Russell Metty Director of Photography
Art Albert S. D'Agostino Assistant Art Director
Production Lee S. Marcus Production Executive
Sound Robert Russell Bennett Orchestrator
Sound Rex Dunn Original Music Composer
Sound Gene Rose Music
Sound Roy Webb Music
Sound Rex Dunn Music Director
Sound John E. Tribby Sound Recordist

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