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63% Critic Match
The Spellbinder
“Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!”
6.3 / 10• 1939• 1h 9m•NR• English
CrimeRomanceDrama
Storyline
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?
Cast & Crew
Lee Tracy
Jed Marlowe
Lead
Barbara Read
Janet Marlowe
Patric Knowles
Tom Dixon
Allan Lane
Steve Kendall
Linda Hayes
Miss Simpson
Morgan Conway
Mr. Carrington
Robert Emmett Keane
Judge Butler, Second Trial
Roy Gordon
Third Trial Judge
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jack Hively's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Spellbinder is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
