The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Original title: The Prisoner of Shark Island

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6.9/10

(54)

2/28/1936

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1h 33min

The Prisoner of Shark Island

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Synopsis

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.

Direction: John Ford

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Cast

Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

Gloria Stuart

Gloria Stuart

Mrs. Peggy Mudd

Claude Gillingwater

Claude Gillingwater

Colonel Dyer

Arthur Byron

Arthur Byron

Mr. Erickson

O. P. Heggie

O. P. Heggie

Dr. Mac Intyre

Harry Carey

Harry Carey

Commandant

Francis Ford

Francis Ford

Corporal O'Toole

John McGuire

John McGuire

Lieutenant Lovett

Francis McDonald

Francis McDonald

John Wilkes Booth

Douglas Wood

Douglas Wood

General Ewing

John Carradine

John Carradine

Sergeant Rankin