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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Directed by John Ford
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 93 minutes
Actors
Warner Baxter | Gloria Stuart | Claude Gillingwater | Arthur Byron | O.P. Heggie | Harry Carey | Francis Ford | John McGuire | Francis McDonald | Douglas Wood | John Carradine | Joyce Kay | Fred Kohler Jr. | Ernest Whitman | Paul Fix | Frank Shannon | Frank McGlynn Sr. | Leila McIntyre | Etta McDaniel | J.M. Kerrigan | Arthur Loft | Paul McVey | Maurice Murphy | Matthew 'Stymie' Beard