The Prisoner of Shark Island
“Based on the life story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd”
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.
Director
John Ford
Writer
Nunnally Johnson
Studio
20th Century Fox
Vote Count
62
Cast
Warner Baxter
Dr. Samuel Alexander...
Gloria Stuart
Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Claude Gillingwate...
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
Joyce Kay
Martha Mudd
Fred Kohler Jr.
Sergeant Cooper
Ernest Whitman
Buck
Paul Fix
David Herold
Frank Shannon
Mr. Holt
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