The Spellbinder (1939)

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1h 9min | Crime, Drama, Romance | Jul 28, 1939 | Released

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?

Director: Jack Hively

Producer: Cliff Reid

Writer(s): Joseph Fields Thomas Lennon

Story: Joseph Anthony

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Cast (40 Members)

Harry Beldon - Saxophone Player

Tom Dixon

Mrs. Jenkins

Virginia Weidler

Girl

Mrs. Raymond - School Headmistress

Chester Conklin

Courtroom Extra

Stanley Blystone

Court Clerk - Second Trial

Dr. Hillary Schunk

Jed Marlowe

First Trial Judge

Third Trial Judge

Tom - Taxi Driver

Turnkey

Headwaiter

First Marriage License Clerk

Court Policeman at Door

Hotel Clerk

J.J. Henkins - Auditor

Robert Emmett Keane

Judge Butler - Second Trial

Elliott Sullivan

Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Taxi Driver

Juror - First Trial

Mr. Carrington

Steve Kendall

Juror - First Trial

Monte Vandergrift

Official from D.A.'s Office

Nightclub Extra

Club 88 Doorman

Courtroom Extra

Taxi Driver

Janet Marlowe

Second Marriage License Clerk

Kendall's Editor

Miss Simpson

Courtroom Extra

Policeman Testifying at Third Trial

Gertrude Sutton

Miss Burke - aka Ice Box's Wife

Ronald R. Rondell

Reporter at Third Trial

Duffy - Second Trial Bailiff

Bellboy

Leonid Kinskey Harry Beldon - Saxophone Player

Patric Knowles Tom Dixon

Leona Roberts Mrs. Jenkins

Virginia Weidler Girl

Doris Lloyd Mrs. Raymond - School Headmistress

Chester Conklin Courtroom Extra

Stanley Blystone Court Clerk - Second Trial

Chester Clute Dr. Hillary Schunk

Lee Tracy Jed Marlowe

Robert Strange First Trial Judge

Roy Gordon Third Trial Judge

Edward Gargan Tom - Taxi Driver

Lew Kelly Turnkey

Frank Puglia Headwaiter

Earle Hodgins First Marriage License Clerk

Robert Homans Court Policeman at Door

Paul E. Burns Hotel Clerk

Byron Foulger J.J. Henkins - Auditor

Robert Emmett Keane Judge Butler - Second Trial

Elliott Sullivan Harry 'Ice Box' Swinnerty

Frank Marlowe Taxi Driver

Russ Powell Juror - First Trial

Morgan Conway Mr. Carrington

Allan Lane Steve Kendall

Tom McGuire Juror - First Trial

Monte Vandergrift Official from D.A.'s Office

Bess Flowers Nightclub Extra

Emory Parnell Club 88 Doorman

Julia Faye Courtroom Extra

Donald Kerr Taxi Driver

Barbara Read Janet Marlowe

Forbes Murray Second Marriage License Clerk

Harland Tucker Kendall's Editor

Linda Hayes Miss Simpson

Jack Gargan Courtroom Extra

Bruce Mitchell Policeman Testifying at Third Trial

Gertrude Sutton Miss Burke - aka Ice Box's Wife

Ronald R. Rondell Reporter at Third Trial

Clyde Dilson Duffy - Second Trial Bailiff

George Noisom Bellboy

Crew (15 Members)

Music

Editor

Albert S. D'Agostino

Assistant Art Director

Van Nest Polglase

Art Direction

Screenplay

Producer

Director of Photography

Costume Design

Production Executive

Sound Recordist

Director

Robert Russell Bennett

Orchestrator

Screenplay

Music Director

Story

Roy Webb Music

Theron Warth Editor

Albert S. D'Agostino Assistant Art Director

Van Nest Polglase Art Direction

Joseph Fields Screenplay

Cliff Reid Producer

Russell Metty Director of Photography

Renié Costume Design

Lee S. Marcus Production Executive

John E. Tribby Sound Recordist

Jack Hively Director

Robert Russell Bennett Orchestrator

Thomas Lennon Screenplay

Eugene Joseff Music Director

Joseph Anthony Story

Age At Time Of Release

36

50

27

Albert S. D'Agostino

46

27

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