The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Synopsis
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Release Date: 1936-02-28
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: John Ford
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- Warner Baxter as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
- Gloria Stuart as Mrs. Peggy Mudd
- Claude Gillingwater as Colonel Dyer
- Arthur Byron as Mr. Erickson
- O. P. Heggie as Dr. Mac Intyre
- Harry Carey as Commandant
- Francis Ford as Corporal O'Toole
- John McGuire as Lieutenant Lovett
- Francis McDonald as John Wilkes Booth
- Douglas Wood as General Ewing
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