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The Spellbinder (1939)
Directed by Jack Hively
Overview
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?
Rated NR | Length 69 minutes
Actors
Lee Tracy | Barbara Read | Patric Knowles | Allan Lane | Linda Hayes | Morgan Conway | Robert Emmett Keane | Roy Gordon | Robert Strange | Elliott Sullivan | Leonid Kinskey | Stanley Blystone | Paul E. Burns | Chester Clute | Chester Conklin | Clyde Dilson | Julia Faye | Bess Flowers | Byron Foulger | Edward Gargan | Jack Gargan | Earle Hodgins | Robert Homans | Lew Kelly | Donald Kerr | Doris Lloyd | Frank Marlowe | Tom McGuire | Bruce Mitchell | Forbes Murray | George Noisom | Emory Parnell | Russ Powell | Frank Puglia | Leona Roberts | Ronald R. Rondell | Gertrude Sutton | Harland Tucker | Monte Vandergrift