The Spellbinder

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?

Crime Romance Drama

Lee Tracy

Barbara Read

(Janet Marlowe)

Patric Knowles

Allan Lane

(Steve Kendall)

Linda Hayes

Morgan Conway

(Mr. Carrington)

Robert Emmett Keane

(Judge Butler, Second Trial)

Roy Gordon

(Third Trial Judge)

Robert Strange

(First Trial Judge)

Elliott Sullivan

(Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty)

Leonid Kinskey

(Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player)

Stanley Blystone

(Court Clerk, Second Trial (Uncredited))

Paul E. Burns

(Hotel Clerk (Uncredited))

Chester Clute

(Dr. Hillary Schunk (Uncredited))

Chester Conklin

(Courtroom Extra (Uncredited))

Clyde Dilson

(Duffy, Second Trial Bailiff (Uncredited))

Julia Faye

(Courtroom Extra (Uncredited))

Bess Flowers

(Nightclub Extra (Uncredited))

Byron Foulger

(J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited))

Edward Gargan

(Tom, Taxi Driver (Uncredited))

Jack Gargan

(Courtroom Extra (Uncredited))

Earle Hodgins

(First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited))

Robert Homans

(Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited))

Lew Kelly

(Turnkey (Uncredited))

Donald Kerr

(Taxi Driver (Uncredited))

Doris Lloyd

(Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress (Uncredited))

Frank Marlowe

(Taxi Driver (Uncredited))

Tom McGuire

(Juror, First Trial (Uncredited))

Bruce Mitchell

(Policeman Testifying at Third Trial (Uncredited))

Forbes Murray

(Second Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited))

George Noisom

(Bellboy (Uncredited))

Emory Parnell

(Club 88 Doorman (Uncredited))

Russ Powell

(Juror, First Trial (Uncredited))

Frank Puglia

(Headwaiter (Uncredited))

Leona Roberts

(Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited))

Ronald R. Rondell

(Reporter at Third Trial (Uncredited))

Gertrude Sutton

(Miss Burke, Ice Box's Wife (Uncredited))

Harland Tucker

(Kendall's Editor (Uncredited))

Monte Vandergrift

(Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited))