The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder (1939) is a crime, romance film directed by Jack Hively rated 6.3/10.

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

Lee Tracy

Jed Marlowe

Barbara Read

Janet Marlowe

Patric Knowles

Tom Dixon

Allan Lane

Steve Kendall

Linda Hayes

Miss Simpson

Morgan Conway

Mr. Carrington

Robert Emmett Keane

Judge Butler, Second Trial

Roy Gordon

Third Trial Judge

Robert Strange

First Trial Judge

Elliott Sullivan

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Leonid Kinskey

Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

Stanley Blystone

Court Clerk, Second Trial (uncredited)