The Prisoner of Shark Island
John Ford | United States of America
February 28, 1936 | 93m
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
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Overview:
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.
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| 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 |
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