The Prisoner of Shark Island

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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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Drama,

History

Duration:

93 minutes

Year:

1936

Director:

John Ford

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Company:

20th Century Fox

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

Crew:
John Ford

Director

Nunnally Johnson

Screenplay

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Nunnally Johnson

Associate Producer

Jack Murray

Editor