The Spellbinder is a 1939 American drama film directed by Jack Hively, written by Thomas Lennon and Joseph Fields, and starring Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Allan Lane and Linda Hayes.

[1][2] It was released on July 28, 1939, by RKO Pictures.

Jed Marlowe is a lawyer that specialises in defending guilty criminals using loopholes and briberies.

His daughter believes that the criminals saved by her father are actually innocent and marries a killer that should have gone to the electric chair if not for Jed.

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