6.9/10
The Prisoner of Shark Island
"Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd"
1936
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1h 33min
Drama
History
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.
Director
John Ford
Starring
Warner Baxter · Gloria Stuart · Claude Gillingwater · Arthur Byron · O. P. Heggie
