The Spellbinder
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
1939-07-28 | 69 minutes
Plot 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?
Cast
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Lee TracyJed Marlowe
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Barbara ReadJanet Marlowe
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Patric KnowlesTom Dixon
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Allan LaneSteve Kendall
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Linda HayesMiss Simpson
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Morgan ConwayMr. Carrington
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Robert Emmett KeaneJudge Butler, Second Trial
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Roy GordonThird Trial Judge
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Robert StrangeFirst Trial Judge
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Elliott SullivanHarry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
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Leonid KinskeyHarry Beldon, Saxophone Player
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Stanley BlystoneCourt Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)
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Paul E. BurnsHotel Clerk (uncredited)
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Chester CluteDr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
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Chester ConklinCourtroom Extra (uncredited)
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Julia FayeCourtroom Extra (uncredited)
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Bess FlowersNightclub Extra (uncredited)
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Byron FoulgerJ.J. Henkins, Auditor (uncredited)
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Edward GarganTom, Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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