The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
- Date of release
- 1936-02-28
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (63)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- John Ford
Casting
- Warner Baxter — Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
- Gloria Stuart — Mrs. Peggy Mudd
- Claude Gillingwater — Colonel Dyer
- Arthur Byron — Mr. Erickson
- O. P. Heggie — Dr. Mac Intyre
- Harry Carey — Commandant
- Francis Ford — Corporal O'Toole
- John McGuire — Lieutenant Lovett
- Francis McDonald — John Wilkes Booth
- Douglas Wood — General Ewing
- John Carradine — Sergeant Rankin
- Joyce Kay — Martha Mudd
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