John FordDirector
Warner BaxterDr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Gloria StuartMrs. Peggy Mudd
Claude GillingwaterColonel Dyer
Arthur ByronMr. Erickson
O. P. HeggieDr. Mac Intyre
Harry CareyCommandant
Francis FordCorporal O'Toole
John McGuireLieutenant Lovett
Francis McDonaldJohn Wilkes Booth
Douglas WoodGeneral Ewing
John CarradineSergeant Rankin
Joyce KayMartha Mudd
The Prisoner of Shark Island
- drama
- history
28 Feb 1936
6.8
2
1h 33min
Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
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.
