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The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 28, 1939

Runtime

1h 9m

Genres

Crime, Romance, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Spellbinder

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Director

Jack Hively

Description

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?