Movie
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1936-02-28
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
Crew
- John Ford - Director
- Nunnally Johnson - Screenplay
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