The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

Name: The Prisoner of Shark Island
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1936-02-28
Duration: 93 min
Cast: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O. P. Heggie

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.

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Released 1936-02-28 · 93 min · Drama, History

Directed by John Ford

Cast

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
John Carradine as Sergeant Rankin
Joyce Kay as Martha Mudd
Fred Kohler Jr. as Sergeant Cooper
Ernest Whitman as Buck
Paul Fix as David Herold