The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder

69 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance | July 28, 1939

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?

The Spellbinder

69 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance | July 28, 1939

The Spellbinder
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?
Producers RKO Radio Pictures
Original title The Spellbinder
Directors Jack Hively
Writers Joseph Anthony, Thomas Lennon, Joseph Fields

Cast

Lee Tracy

as Jed Marlowe

Barbara Read

as Janet Marlowe

Patric Knowles

as Tom Dixon

Allan Lane

as Steve Kendall

Linda Hayes

as Miss Simpson

Morgan Conway

as Mr. Carrington

Robert Emmett Keane

as Judge Butler, Second Trial

Roy Gordon

as Third Trial Judge

Robert Strange

as First Trial Judge

Elliott Sullivan

as Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Leonid Kinskey

as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

Stanley Blystone

as Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)

Paul E. Burns

as Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)

Chester Clute

as Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)

Chester Conklin

as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Clyde Dilson

as Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)

Julia Faye

as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Bess Flowers

as Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)

Edward Gargan

as Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Jack Gargan

as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Earle Hodgins

as First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

Robert Homans

as Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)

Lew Kelly

as Turnkey (Uncredited)

Donald Kerr

as Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Doris Lloyd

as Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)

Frank Marlowe

as Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Tom McGuire

as Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Bruce Mitchell

as Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)

Forbes Murray

as Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

George Noisom

as Bellboy (Uncredited)

Emory Parnell

as Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)

Russ Powell

as Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Frank Puglia

as Headwaiter (Uncredited)

Leona Roberts

as Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited)

Ronald R. Rondell

as Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited)

Gertrude Sutton

as Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited)

Harland Tucker

as Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)

Monte Vandergrift

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