The Spellbinder (1939)
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?
Cast
Jed Marlowe
Janet Marlowe
Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)
Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)
Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)
Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)
J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)
Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Tom Dixon
Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)
Turnkey (Uncredited)
Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)
Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Steve Kendall
Bellboy (Uncredited)
Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)
Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Headwaiter (Uncredited)
Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)
Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)
Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)
Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)
Miss Simpson
Mr. Carrington
Judge Butler, Second Trial
Third Trial Judge
First Trial Judge
Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Crew
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Music
Music
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