The Spellbinder

1939· 69 min★ 6.1· Crime, Drama, Romance

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, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Allan Lane

Director: Jack Hively