The Spellbinder
movie
Trapped - Between the Daughter he Loved and the Law He Defied!
Released July 28, 1939
Overview
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
Lee Tracy
as
Jed Marlowe
Barbara Read
as
Janet Marlowe
Patric Knowles
as
Tom Dixon
Allan Lane
as
Steve Kendall
Linda Hayes
as
Miss Simpson
Morgan Conway
as
Mr. Carrington
Robert Emmett Keane
as
Judge Butler, Second Trial
Roy Gordon
as
Third Trial Judge
Robert Strange
as
First Trial Judge
Elliott Sullivan
as
Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty
Leonid Kinskey
as
Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Stanley Blystone
as
Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited)
Crew
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Joseph Anthony
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Story
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Thomas Lennon
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Screenplay
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Joseph Fields
as
Screenplay
Renié
as
Costume Design
Van Nest Polglase
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Art Direction
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Jack Hively
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Director
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Cliff Reid
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Producer
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Theron Warth
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Editor
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Russell Metty
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Director of Photography
Albert S. D'Agostino
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Assistant Art Director
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Lee S. Marcus
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Production Executive
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Robert Russell Bennett
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Orchestrator