The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder (1939)

Released: 1939-07-28 Duration: 1hr 9min
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Rating 6.0
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!

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?

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 1.847

Directed By

Jack Hively

Crew

Art Direction
Van Nest Polglase
Editor
Theron Warth
Costume Design
Renié
Screenplay
Thomas Lennon
Director
Jack Hively
Screenplay
Joseph Fields
Producer
Cliff Reid
Director of Photography
Russell Metty
Assistant Art Director
Albert S. D'Agostino
Production Executive
Lee S. Marcus
Original Music Composer
Rex Dunn
Music
Gene Rose
Music Director
Rex Dunn
Music
Roy Webb
Sound Recordist
John E. Tribby

TOP CAST

Lee Tracy
Lee Tracy

Jed Marlowe

Barbara Read
Barbara Read

Janet Marlowe

Patric Knowles
Patric Knowles

Tom Dixon

Allan Lane
Allan Lane

Steve Kendall

Linda Hayes
Linda Hayes

Miss Simpson

Morgan Conway
Morgan Conway

Mr. Carrington

Robert Emmett Keane
Robert Emmett Keane

Judge Butler, Second Trial

Roy Gordon
Roy Gordon

Third Trial Judge

Robert Strange
Robert Strange

First Trial Judge

Elliott Sullivan
Elliott Sullivan

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Leonid Kinskey
Leonid Kinskey

Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

Stanley Blystone
Stanley Blystone

Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)

Paul E. Burns
Paul E. Burns

Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)

Chester Clute
Chester Clute

Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)

Chester Conklin
Chester Conklin

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Clyde Dilson
Clyde Dilson

Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)

Julia Faye
Julia Faye

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers

Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)

Byron Foulger
Byron Foulger

J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)

Edward Gargan
Edward Gargan

Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Jack Gargan
Jack Gargan

Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)

Earle Hodgins
Earle Hodgins

First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

Robert Homans
Robert Homans

Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)

Lew Kelly
Lew Kelly

Turnkey (Uncredited)

Donald Kerr
Donald Kerr

Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Doris Lloyd
Doris Lloyd

Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)

Frank Marlowe
Frank Marlowe

Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

Tom McGuire
Tom McGuire

Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Bruce Mitchell
Bruce Mitchell

Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)

Forbes Murray
Forbes Murray

Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)

George Noisom
George Noisom

Bellboy (Uncredited)

Emory Parnell
Emory Parnell

Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited)

Russ Powell
Russ Powell

Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)

Frank Puglia
Frank Puglia

Headwaiter (Uncredited)

Leona Roberts
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
Harland Tucker

Kendall's Editor (Uncredited)

Monte Vandergrift
Monte Vandergrift

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

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