The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Prisoner of Shark Island
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The Prisoner of Shark Island

Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

6.9(61 votes)·1936 93m·EN· United States of America

Directed by John Ford

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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6.9/10

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Director

John Ford

Studios

20th Century Fox

Budget

Revenue

Cast

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

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Joyce Kay

Martha Mudd

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