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The Spellbinder (1939)

6 | Jul 28, 1939 (US) | Crime, Romance, Drama | 01:09

Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!

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?

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Lee Tracy
Jed Marlowe
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Barbara Read
Janet Marlowe
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Patric Knowles
Tom Dixon
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Allan Lane
Steve Kendall
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Linda Hayes
Miss Simpson
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Morgan Conway
Mr. Carrington
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Robert Emmett Keane
Judge Butler, Second Trial
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Roy Gordon
Third Trial Judge
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Robert Strange
First Trial Judge
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Elliott Sullivan
Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty