The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island

93 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 28, 1936

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.

The Prisoner of Shark Island

93 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 28, 1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title The Prisoner of Shark Island
Directors Edward O'Fearna, John Ford
Writers Nunnally Johnson

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

Frank Shannon

as Mr. Holt

Frank McGlynn Sr.

as Abraham Lincoln

Leila McIntyre

as Mrs. Abraham Lincoln

Etta McDaniel

as Aunt Rosabelle

J. M. Kerrigan

as Judge Maiben

Arthur Loft

as Carpet Bagger

Paul McVey

as General Hunter

Maurice Murphy

as Orderly