The Prisoner of Shark Island
(1936)

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

Released: 1936-02-28

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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.

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Warner Baxter

as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd

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Gloria Stuart

as Mrs. Peggy Mudd

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Claude Gillingwater

as Colonel Dyer

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Arthur Byron

as Mr. Erickson

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O. P. Heggie

as Dr. Mac Intyre

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Harry Carey

as Commandant

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Francis Ford

as Corporal O'Toole

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John McGuire

as Lieutenant Lovett

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Francis McDonald

as John Wilkes Booth

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Douglas Wood

as General Ewing

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John Carradine

as Sergeant Rankin

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Joyce Kay

as Martha Mudd

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Fred Kohler Jr.

as Sergeant Cooper

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Ernest Whitman

as Buck

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Paul Fix

as David Herold

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Frank Shannon

as Mr. Holt

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Frank McGlynn Sr.

as Abraham Lincoln

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Leila McIntyre

as Mrs. Abraham Lincoln

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Etta McDaniel

as Aunt Rosabelle

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J.M. Kerrigan

as Judge Maiben

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