The Spellbinder(1939)
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?
Movie: The Spellbinder
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jed Marlowe
Janet Marlowe
Tom Dixon
Steve Kendall
Miss Simpson
Mr. Carrington
Judge Butler, Second Trial
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First Trial Judge
Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
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