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The Spellbinder
Release Date: July 28, 1939
| Year | : | 1939 |
| Slogan | : | «Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!» |
| Genres | : | Crime, Romance, Drama |
| Production Companies | : | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Director | : | Jack Hively |
| Producers | : | Cliff Reid, Lee S. Marcus |
| Writers | : | Joseph Fields, Thomas Lennon, Joseph Anthony |
| RunTime | : | 69 mins. |
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?
Main Actors
Lee Tracy
Character : Jed Marlowe
Barbara Read
Character : Janet Marlowe
Patric Knowles
Character : Tom Dixon
Allan Lane
Character : Steve Kendall
Linda Hayes
Character : Miss Simpson
Morgan Conway
Character : Mr. Carrington
Robert Emmett Keane
Character : Judge Butler, Second Trial
Roy Gordon
Character : Third Trial Judge
Robert Strange
Character : First Trial Judge
Elliott Sullivan
Character : Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Leonid Kinskey
Character : Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Stanley Blystone
Character : Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
Character : Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
Chester Clute
Character : Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Character : Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Clyde Dilson
Character : Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)
Julia Faye
Character : Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Character : Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Character : J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)
Edward Gargan
Character : Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Jack Gargan
Character : Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
Character : First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Robert Homans
Character : Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)
Lew Kelly
Character : Turnkey (Uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Character : Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Doris Lloyd
Character : Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Character : Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Character : Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Bruce Mitchell
Character : Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Forbes Murray
Character : Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
George Noisom
Character : Bellboy (Uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Character : Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)
Russ Powell
Character : Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Character : Headwaiter (Uncredited)
Leona Roberts
Character : Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
Character : Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Gertrude Sutton
Character : Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)
Harland Tucker
Character : Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)
Monte Vandergrift
Character : Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)
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