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The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder

★ 6.0

Release Date:
Jul 28, 1939

Runtime:
1h 9m

Genres:
Crime, Romance, Drama

Description

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?

Director: Jack Hively

Writer: Joseph Anthony, Thomas Lennon, Joseph Fields

Stars: Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Cast

Lee Tracy

Barbara Read

Patric Knowles

Allan Lane

Linda Hayes

Morgan Conway

Robert Emmett Keane

Robert Emmett Keane

Judge Butler, Second Trial

Roy Gordon

Third Trial Judge

Robert Strange

First Trial Judge

Elliott Sullivan

Elliott Sullivan

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Leonid Kinskey

Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

Stanley Blystone

Stanley Blystone

Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)

Paul E. Burns

Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)

Chester Clute

Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)

Julia Faye

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)

Byron Foulger

J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Earle Hodgins

First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

Robert Homans

Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)

Lew Kelly

Turnkey (Uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Doris Lloyd

Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)

Frank Marlowe

Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Tom McGuire

Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)

Forbes Murray

Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

Bellboy (Uncredited)

Emory Parnell

Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)

Russ Powell

Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Frank Puglia

Headwaiter (Uncredited)

Leona Roberts

Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)

Ronald R. Rondell

Ronald R. Rondell

Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)

Gertrude Sutton

Gertrude Sutton

Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)

Harland Tucker

Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)

Monte Vandergrift

Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)

Crew View All

Director of Photography

Original Music Composer

Van Nest Polglase

Van Nest Polglase

Albert S. D'Agostino

Albert S. D'Agostino

Assistant Art Director

Renié

Production Executive

Roy Webb

Robert Russell Bennett

Sound Recordist