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The Spellbinder

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Original title

The Spellbinder

Year

1939

Running time

69 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jack B. Hively

Screenwriter

Thomas Lennon, Joseph Fields. Story: Joseph Anthony

Cast

Music

Rex Dunn

Cinematography

Russell Metty (B&W)

Producer

RKO Radio Pictures. Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures

Genre

Film noir. Drama | Crime. Courtroom Drama / Lawyers

Synopsis

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.

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The Spellbinder

1939

Jack B. Hively