The Spellbinder
1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
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.
Direction Jack B. Hively
Cast Lee Tracy · Barbara Read · Patric Knowles · Allan Lane · Linda Hayes · Morgan Conway · Robert Emmett Keane · Roy Gordon · Robert Strange · Elliott Sullivan · Leonid Kinskey
Soundtrack Rex Dunn
Screenplay Thomas Lennon · Joseph Fields · Joseph Anthony
Cinematography Russell Metty
Original title The Spellbinder
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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