
The Spellbinder (1939)
1h 9m | PG-13
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
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Genre: Crime, Romance, Drama
Video: 720p
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