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The Prisoner of Shark Island
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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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
Details
- Director
- John Ford
- Released
- February 28, 1936
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.8 / 10 from 63 votes
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