The Prisoner of Shark Island

Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

Directed by John Ford

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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.

Cast

Warner Baxter

Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

Gloria Stuart

Mrs. Peggy Mudd

Claude Gillingwater

Colonel Dyer

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