The Spellbinder
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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?
Status: Released
Released Date: 1939-07-28
Runtime: 69 mins
Director: Jack Hively
Spoken language: English
Genres: Crime, Romance, Drama
Original title: The Spellbinder
Production Companies: RKO Radio Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Lee Tracy
Barbara Read
Patric Knowles
Allan Lane
Linda Hayes
Morgan Conway
Robert Emmett Keane
Roy Gordon
Robert Strange
Elliott Sullivan
Leonid Kinskey
Stanley Blystone
Paul E. Burns
Chester Clute
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