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The Spellbinder

1939 • 1h9m Crime, Romance, Drama

Rating

6.0/10

Popularity

1

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?

Details

Director

Jack Hively

Screenplay

Thomas Lennon

Joseph Fields

Cast

Lee Tracy

Barbara Read

Patric Knowles

Release date

7/28/1939

Status

Released

Origin country

US

Vote count

2