Movie
The Spellbinder
Released: July 28, 1939 (1939)
Runtime: 69 minutes
Genres: Crime, Romance, Drama
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?
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Robert Strange as First Trial Judge
Age at release: 57
- Robert Emmett Keane as Judge Butler, Second Trial
Age at release: 56
- Roy Gordon as Third Trial Judge
Age at release: 54
- Lee Tracy as Jed Marlowe
Age at release: 41
- Morgan Conway as Mr. Carrington
Age at release: 36
- Elliott Sullivan as Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Age at release: 32
- Allan Lane as Steve Kendall
Age at release: 29
- Patric Knowles as Tom Dixon
Age at release: 27
- Barbara Read as Janet Marlowe
Age at release: 21
- Linda Hayes as Miss Simpson
Age at release: 20
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- Tom McGuire as Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Age at release: 65
- Robert Homans as Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)
Age at release: 61
- Lew Kelly as Turnkey (Uncredited)
Age at release: 59
- Paul E. Burns as Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
Age at release: 58
- Bruce Mitchell as Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited)
Age at release: 58
- Forbes Murray as Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Age at release: 54
- Chester Conklin as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Age at release: 53
- Chester Clute as Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited)
Age at release: 48
- Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited)
Age at release: 48
- Donald Kerr as Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Age at release: 47
- Julia Faye as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Age at release: 45
- Earle Hodgins as First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
Age at release: 45
- Stanley Blystone as Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)
Age at release: 44
- Clyde Dilson as Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited)
Age at release: 40
- Bess Flowers as Nightclub Extra (Uncredited)
Age at release: 40
- Byron Foulger as J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)
Age at release: 40
- Jack Gargan as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Age at release: 39
- Edward Gargan as Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Age at release: 37
- Leonid Kinskey as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Age at release: 36
- Frank Marlowe as Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Age at release: 35