The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

6.9/10 93 min Drama History

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.

Cast

Warner Baxter

Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

Gloria Stuart

Mrs. Peggy Mudd

Claude Gillingwater

Colonel Dyer

Arthur Byron

Mr. Erickson

O. P. Heggie

Dr. Mac Intyre

Harry Carey

Commandant

Francis Ford

Corporal O'Toole

John McGuire

Lieutenant Lovett

Francis McDonald

John Wilkes Booth

Douglas Wood

General Ewing

John Carradine

Sergeant Rankin

Fred Kohler Jr.

Sergeant Cooper

Ernest Whitman

Buck

Paul Fix

David Herold

Frank Shannon

Mr. Holt

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Abraham Lincoln

Etta McDaniel

Aunt Rosabelle

J.M. Kerrigan

Judge Maiben

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